academe
pronunciation
How to pronounce academe in British English:
UK ['ækədi:m]
How to pronounce academe in American English:
US [ˈækəˌdim]
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- Noun:
- the academic world
Word Origin
- Academe (n.)
- "The Academy," 1580s, from phrase groves of Academe, translating Horace's silvas Academi (see academy); general sense of "the world of universities and scholarship" is attested from 1849. With lower-case letter, academia in the sense of "academic community" is from 1956. Academe properly means Academus (a Greek hero); & its use as a poetic variant for academy, though sanctioned by Shakespeare, Tennyson & Lowell, is a mistake; the grove of A., however, (Milton) means rightly The Academy. [Fowler]
Example
- 1. This phenomenon has attracted the attention of domestic academe .
- 2. The author has highly prestige and status in academe .
- 3. Three appraisals to the special relativity in academe .
- 4. Only when I quit business and academe to write , and did not have to placate clients or potential benefactors , could I openly say that the conventional wisdom was in error .
- 5. Governance and good governance is one of the most popular theories in western academe from the 1990s .