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noun ac·a·deme \ ˈa-kə-ˌdēm , ˌa-kə-ˈ \

Definition of academe

1 a :a place of instruction

b :the academic life, community, or world

in the halls of academe

2 :academic; especially :pedant

Examples of academe in a Sentence

the cloistered and privileged world inhabited by the students in that suburban academe

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But in the academe there are standards, and plagiarism is considered breaking those standards.

— mará rose williams, kansascity, "Kansas college leader accused of plagiarizing May commencement speech," 10 Aug. 2017
Apparently, its corporate focus on secrecy has been an impediment in recruiting talent (some of whom come from academe and discern publishing as essential).

— The Hive, "Is Trump Trying to “Throw the Attorney General of the United States Overboard”?," 25 July 2017
But much of the research says conservative students and faculty members are not only surviving but thriving in academe—free of indoctrination if not the periodic frustrations.

— graham vyse, New Republic, "Liberals Can’t Ignore the Right’s Hatred for Academia," 13 July 2017
In academe, the forbidden ideas are typically conservative ones.

— ron grossman, chicagotribune.com, "Want to control theater critics? Be careful what you wish for," 22 June 2017
Colleges provide a distinctive sense of place, of course, and while Washington may not be the quintessential college town, the groves of academe still extend their tendrils here and there.

— john kelly, Washington Post, "An idea: Tear down the ugly Hoover Building, but let the FBI come back to D.C.," 7 June 2017
The eggheads of academe dissect the president’s efforts to make an enemy of the press.

— vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, "Is Donald Trump Following a Playbook for Dictators?," 18 Apr. 2017
The downshouters will go on behaving deplorably, and reminding the rest of us that the true harbinger of an authoritarian future lives not in the White House but in the groves of academe.

— stephen carter, Twin Cities, "Stephen Carter: Ideology behind intolerant students isn’t new," 9 Mar. 2017
The result has been a huge number of complaints throughout academe and a concomitant growth of bureaucracy.

— william stadiem, Town & Country, "Can Harvard's Storied Final Clubs Resist the Tides of Change?," 2 Aug. 2016

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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

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school, academy, seminary

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baccalaureate, colloquium, corequisite, dissertation, monograph, pedant, practicum, survey course, thesis

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