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ac·a·deme

(ăk′ə-dēm′)

a. The academic environment, community, or world.

b. Academic life.

2. A place in which instruction is given to students.

3. A scholar, especially a pedant.

[From Latin Acadēmīa, the Academy; see academy.]

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academe

(ˈækəˌdiːm)

1. (Education) any place of learning, such as a college or university

2. (Education) the grove of Academe the groves of Academe the academic world

[C16: first used by Shakespeare in Love's Labour's Lost (1594); see academy]

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ac•a•deme

(ˈæk əˌdim, ˌæk əˈdim)

n.

1. the academic environment.

2. any place of instruction; school.

3. a scholar or pedant.

[1580–90; < Latin Acadēmus (see academy)]

academe

A place of learning, or the world of education in general.

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Noun

academe - the academic world

academia

world, domain - people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world"

college - the body of faculty and students of a college

university - the body of faculty and students at a university

tenure - give life-time employment to; "She was tenured after she published her book"

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academe

[ˈækədiːm] academia [ˌækəˈdiːmɪə] N (liter) → mundo m académico

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academe

[ˈækədiːm] n → monde m universitaire

academe

n (form) → die akademische Welt; the groves pl of academe → die akademischen Gefilde pl (form)

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See there the olive-grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There, flowery hill, Hymettus, with the sound Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing; there Ilissus rowls His whispering stream.