Academia refers to all the academics in a particular country or region, the institutions they work in, and their work.
...the importance of strong links between industry and academia.
Synonyms: academic life, learning, scholarship, academe [literary] More Synonyms of academia
academia in British English
(ˌækəˈdiːmɪə)
noun
the academic world
academia in American English
(ˌækəˈdimiə; ˌækəˈdeɪmiə)
noun
the academic world; academe
Word origin
L: see academy
Examples of 'academia' in a sentence
academia
My own world of academia has not been immune.
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So how was he diverted from academia into the business world?
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She plans to look for work in academia or public relations.
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The professor is also inspired by what has happened in Germany through ties between industry and academia.
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Its membership includes senior MPs from the three main parties and experts from business and academia.
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As a playfully arresting meditation on free will, religion and academia it works too.
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He now works part-time in academia but is far more fulfilled by running his own motorcycle repair shop.
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He was a generous man who showed unfailing kindness to junior colleagues, offering them his idiosyncratic insight into the world of academia.
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We put together the best physicists, the best engineers, the best of industry and academia.
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That, he admits, has enabled him to take risks others in academia and industry would avoid.
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The world of academia has very little interest in - and no respect for - the world of business.
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The Constant Liberal is impeccably researched and straddles that awkward line between general biography and a work of academia.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
The new body is launched this month and will bring together experts from government, industry and academia to look atthe challenge of funding energy industry research.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Such are the questions being wrestled with in American academia, amid calls from students for warnings to be applied to books that may cause distress.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
(noun)
strong links between industry and academia
Synonyms
academic life
learning
The library is the focal point of learning on the campus.
scholarship
I want to take advantage of your lifetime of scholarship.
academe (literary)
university life
the groves of Academe (literary)
Additional synonyms
in the sense of learning
Definition
knowledge gained by studying
The library is the focal point of learning on the campus.
Synonyms
knowledge,
study,
education,
schooling,
research,
scholarship,
tuition,
enlightenment,
e-learning or elearning
in the sense of scholarship
Definition
academic achievement
I want to take advantage of your lifetime of scholarship.