academia
noun/ˌækəˈdimiə/
Frequency rank: #7,279 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
the world of universities, colleges, and scholarly research.
Example sentence
She spent most of her career in academia, researching and teaching at universities.
Synonyms & related words
- university
- academe
- scholarly
- education
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