academia

noun

ac·​a·​de·​mia ˌa-kə-ˈdē-mē-ə 

: the life, community, or world of teachers, schools, and education : academe

scientists in industry and academia

a career in academia

Examples of academia in a Sentence

She found the business world very different from academia.

Recent Examples on the Web

Weber excelled in schools and later, academia, helping to found the Africana Studies Department at San Diego State University. —Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 25 Apr. 2026

Researchers across academia, industry and government agencies are developing road maps to scaling these new pathways for energy-efficient computing and are planning for a future where new materials with fundamentally different properties improve efficiency even more. —Gregor Henze, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026

To explain Catherine’s initial reluctance to share her dad’s mathematical masterpiece with Hal (and the rest of academia) would be to spoil far too much of Proof‘s first-act leap and second act plot. —Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026

The committee submitted its findings unanimously — a signal, perhaps, that elite academia is finally willing to say out loud what the public has long believed. —Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026

Word History

Etymology

latinization of academy (with -ia suggesting a geographic entity), after its Latin etymon, Acadēmia

First Known Use

1903, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing academia

• dark academia

Rhymes for academia

• anaemia
• anemia
• artemia
• leukaemia
• leukemia
• pyaemia
• toxaemia
• toxemia
• uremia
• viremia
• acidemia
• azotemia