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Definition of "academia" []

  • The academic community; academe. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "academia" in a sentence
  • "Where in academia is incompetence more evident than in Economics departments?"
  • "And on the larger scale, the issue of the role that academia plays on Wall Street and the role that Wall Street plays in academia is not widely known."
  • "The difference between Continental Europe and the U.S. that led to such a change in academia is that postwar leftism in Europe was obsessed with class."