academia
/ˌakəˈdiːmɪə
/noun [mass noun]
The environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship: he spent his working life in academia...
- Youth is a rare species, and much loved - as much by art and academia as by market research.
- If medical academia is to flourish research and education must be given equal weight.
- Similar influences are at work in the arts, education, academia and especially in the sphere of politics.
Origin
1950s: from Latin (see academy).
Rhymes
- revolutionalise
- revolutionalize
- revolutionariness
- revolutionary
- Revolutionary Tribunal
- Revolutionary War
- revolution counter
- revolutioneering
- revolutioner
- revolution indicator
- revolutionise
- revolutionism
- revolutionist
- revolutionize
- revolutionnaire
- Revolutions of 1848
- revolvable
- revolve
- revolver
- revolver camera
- revolvered
- revolver range
- revolving credit
- revolving door
- revolving fund