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academia

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"Scholarly sphere"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˌæk.əˈdiː.mɪ.ə/Part of speech nounSorted aaacdeimStarts with AEnds with A2 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2C3A4D5E6M7I8A

Definitions

  1. the academic world

Word origin

Borrowed from New Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attica hero Akademos. Doublet of academe, academy, and Akademeia. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.

Used in a sentence

  • Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
  • Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Scholarly sphere8 letters
02Scholarly world8 letters

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