Definitions for academe

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academe ac·a·deme

Spelling: [ak-uh-deem, ak-uh-deem]

IPA: /ˈæk əˌdim, ˌæk əˈdim/

Academe is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in academe (aacdeem).

Definitions for academe

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.

Origin of academe

1580-90; Latin Acadēmus Greek Akádēmos Academus

Examples for academe

There are the dark groves of academe, a place of rest in a bare land.

Athens revives the academe and reinstates the Olympic games under a literary avatar.

He was in his mid-twenties, young and slick, his only nod to academe a small goatee.

The spirit that of old had hallowed the shades of academe presided over these gatherings.

At all events, there is sufficient groundwork for any quantity of euphuism about "classic shades," "groves of academe," et cetera.

"The Grove of academe," replied Abbey, and the eyes of the artist and his wife were riveted on the editor.

After all superficial contrasts have been exhausted, she may still claim the patronage of the philosopher of academe.

It was Billy who spoke, as his eyes first rested upon that eminent pinnacle of academe.

And now if you're to be congratulated before I go back to the groves of academe pray bestir yourself.