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

In parallel, several start-ups and engineering teams are already using W7-X data to inform conceptual power-plant designs, which shows us the experiment’s role as an incubator for both industry and academia. —Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Dec. 2025

Heritage will work to safeguard parental authority over their children’s education, expand universal education choice, protect American taxpayers from bailouts of an academia wholly adrift, and reclaim institutions of higher education from the radical Left. —Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025

Grandmillennial and dark academia styles are evolving into Poetcore, a theme that inspired by aspiring authors. —Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 9 Dec. 2025

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke A brilliant genre mash-up of dark academia, literary fiction and fantasy, rife with subtle hints that slowly reveal the book’s central mystery. —Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025

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

Rhymes for academia

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