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Definition of 'academia'

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academia

(ækədiːmiə )
uncountable noun
Academia refers to all the academics in a particular country or region, the institutions they work in, and their work.
...the importance of strong links between industry and academia.
Synonyms: academic life, learning, scholarship, academe [literary]   More Synonyms of academia
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academia in British

(ˌækəˈdiːmɪə )
noun
the academic world
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academia in American

(ˌækəˈdimiə ; akˌədēˈmēə; ˌækəˈdeɪmiə ; akˌədāˈmēə)
noun
the academic world; academe
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Word origin of 'academia'
L: see academy

Example sentences containing 'academia'

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My own world of academia has not been immune. Times, Sunday Times (2013)So how was he diverted from academia into the business world? Times, Sunday Times (2013)She plans to look for work in academia or public relations. Times, Sunday Times (2013)The professor is also inspired by what has happened in Germany through ties between industry and academia. Times, Sunday Times (2013)Its membership includes senior MPs from the three main parties and experts from business and academia. Times, Sunday Times (2009)As a playfully arresting meditation on free will, religion and academia it works too. Times, Sunday Times (2011)He now works part-time in academia but is far more fulfilled by running his own motorcycle repair shop. Times, Sunday Times (2010)He was a generous man who showed unfailing kindness to junior colleagues, offering them his idiosyncratic insight into the world of academia. Times, Sunday Times (2008)We put together the best physicists, the best engineers, the best of industry and academia. Times, Sunday Times (2009)That, he admits, has enabled him to take risks others in academia and industry would avoid. Times, Sunday Times (2006)The world of academia has very little interest in - and no respect for - the world of business. Times, Sunday Times (2006)The Constant Liberal is impeccably researched and straddles that awkward line between general biography and a work of academia. The Times Literary Supplement (2010)The new body is launched this month and will bring together experts from government, industry and academia to look at the challenge of funding energy industry research. Times, Sunday Times (2006)Such are the questions being wrestled with in American academia, amid calls from students for warnings to be applied to books that may cause distress. Times, Sunday Times (2014)

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