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Examples of academe in a Sentence
the cloistered and privileged world inhabited by the students in that suburban academe
Origin and Etymology of academe
borrowed from Latin Acadēmus (in the phrase inter silvās Acadēmī, “among the groves of Academus,” from Horace's Epistulae), borrowed from Greek Akádēmos — more at academy
First Known Use: 1588
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