academia

Noun

The world of colleges, universities, and scholarship.
the academic world
The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.

Examples

Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
Her vocabulary, straight out of academia, always yielded high scores in Words With Friends.
Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attica hero Akademos. Doublet of academy and Akademeia; see also academe. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.

Synonyms

academe

Scrabble Score: 13

academia: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
academia: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
academia: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

academia: valid Words With Friends Word