Synonyms of academe

academe

noun

ˈa-kə-ˌdēm 

as in school

a place or establishment for teaching and learning

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• school
• academy
• seminary
• kindergarten
• high school
• public school
• prep school
• junior high school
• senior high school
• preparatory school
• secondary school
• prep
• trade school
• elementary school
• primary school
• grammar school
• boarding school
• common school
• middle school
• charter school
• yeshiva
• magnet school
• Sunday school
• minischool
• training school
• madrassa

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of academe

Woke doesn't just characterize academe, academe is from where almost every trope of woke originally came. — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 26 Jan. 2026

Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe. — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025

His ideas have particularly struck a chord with readers who deal in aesthetics—artists, curators, designers, and architects—even though Han has not quite been embraced by philosophy academe. — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024

But her decision to mix it up beyond the halls of academe has also landed her in the middle of a nasty social media drama and a Hollywood dispute. — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023