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
- permanent gas
- permanent hardness
- permanent health insurance
- permanent ink
- permanentise
- permanentize
- permanent loan
- permanently
- permanently pleated
- permanently wave
- permanently waved
- permanent magnet
- permanent marker
- permanentness
- permanent pasture
- permanent press
- permanent pressing
- permanent rank
- permanent revolution
- Permanent Secretary
- permanent set
- permanent tint
- permanent tissue
- permanent tooth
- Permanent Undersecretary