Academia vs. Academe

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  • Academia (noun)

    The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.

    “Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.”

  • Academia (noun)

    Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.

    “Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.”

  • Academe (noun)

    The name of the garden in Athens where the academics met. First attested in the late 16th century.Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

  • Academe (noun)

    An academy; a place of learning. First attested in the late 16th century.

  • Academe (noun)

    The scholarly life, environment, or community. First attested in the mid 19th century.

  • Academe (noun)

    A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant. First attested in the mid 20th century.

Wiktionary
  • Academia (noun)

    the environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship

    “he spent his working life in academia”

  • Academe (noun)

    the academic environment or community; academia

    “bridging the gap between industry and academe”

    “a lifetime in the groves of academe”

Oxford Dictionary

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