Noun Academe Definition and Examples
Definition:
1.noun
The academic environment or community; academia.
- 'a lifetime in the groves of academe'
- 'Significant changes are going to happen in academe regardless of what a faculty or an administration desires.'
- 'Student privacy has always been a hot-button issue in academe, and faculty are often on the front lines of this debate.'
- 'Thus the decision to leave academe often reflected problems in academia, not irresistible temptations outside.'
- 'As a result, their decisions can sometimes disregard the values of academe.'
- 'The first two factors are relevant to the advancement of women not only in academe but in the broader society, too.'
- 'But when we consider the status of women in academe, we may confront not so much a myth as a glass half empty or half full.'
- 'THE GLASS CEILING is firmly intact in academe at the start of the twenty-first century.'
- 'Few faculty enter academe with the assumption that students are customers.'
- 'These studies, while important, mask individual differences in academe.'
- 'The project, based at Pennsylvania State University, focuses on work and family issues in academe.'
((n.) An academy.)
noun
1.
the campus activity, life, and interests of a college or university; the academic world.
2.
(sometimes initial capital letter) any place of instruction; a school.
3.
(initial capital letter) the public grove in Athens in which Plato taught.
4.
a person living in, accustomed to, or preferring the environment of a university.
5.
a scholarly or pedantic person, especially a teacher or student.
Examples:
"academes can be in things."
Origin:
Late 16th century (in the sense ‘academy’): from Latin academia, reinforced by Greek Akadēmos (see academy).
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