Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The academic environment, community, or world.
- noun Academic life.
- noun A place in which instruction is given to students.
- noun A scholar, especially a pedant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The grove and gymnasium near Athens where Plato taught; the Academy; figuratively, any place of similar character.
- noun Hence [lowercase] An academy; a place for philosophic and literary intercourse or instruction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Poetic An academy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the academic world
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(The term academe seems stilted to me, but maybe that's me.)
CHE > Latest news 2010
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Cannadine is countering the currently favored view in academe, which is promulgated by a flatulent and often incoherent body of historical and literary scholarship known as colonial discourse theory.
A Bit of Bunting 2001
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Cannadine is countering the currently favored view in academe, which is promulgated by a flatulent and often incoherent body of historical and literary scholarship known as colonial discourse theory.
A Bit of Bunting 2001
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Later, in academe, I found similar junk like ‘the root metaphors of the radical humanist paradigm’.
Make the lie big, make it simple and keep saying it. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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As those among them who are useful idiots leave their professorial chairs, due to age, maybe, just maybe, we will all get a little intellectual fresh air in academe, and thus in public life.
Coexist, or, Religious Liberty Considered by a Non-Lawyer 2010
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I agree that Patricia White having a foot in practice and academe is a very good thing.
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law 2009
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He'll need all those qualities, because jumping into academe is much harder than it looks.
Discourse.net: FIU Makes a High-Stakes Bet on Alex Acosta 2009
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Via Ron Charles on Twitter, this direct, stat filled condemnation of the ‘publish or peril’ ethic in academe, by Mark Bauerleinin in The Chronicle of Higher Education, and a call for emphasis to be placed on one-on-one interaction and conversation:
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Via Ron Charles on Twitter, this direct, stat filled condemnation of the ‘publish or peril’ ethic in academe, by Mark Bauerleinin in The Chronicle of Higher Education, and a call for emphasis to be placed on one-on-one interaction and conversation:
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Traditionally, the response of Egyptologists to "pyramidiots", as Khufu-scorners are known in academe, has been to ensure that their own books are as impregnably boring as possible.
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson; Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley; and Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple Tom Holland 2010
Louises commented on the word academe
'Werewolves are not a subject for academe,' she said, 'but you know what the professors would be saying if they were. 'Monsters die out when the collective imagination no longer needs them. Species death like this is nothing more than a shift in the aggregate psychic agenda. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 3, 2012