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Definition of 'academe'English
Alternative forms
* Academe
Noun
( en-noun)
(historical) The name of the garden in Athens where the academics met. [Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.]
(poetic) An academy; a place of learning. [ ]
* ~1603 , William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost :
- Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; / Our court shall be a little Academe ,/ Still and contemplative in living art.
(poetic) The scholarly life, environment, or community. [ ]
A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant. [ ]
Usage notes
* Poetic references are often to “the groves of Academe”, a translation of inter silvas Academi .[[http://books.google.com/books?id=NHYXAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA169&dq=%22silvas+Academi%22&lr=&as_brr=1PRA3-PA169,M1]][[http://books.google.com/books?id=nVE3QD1Y5RAC&pg=PA14&dq=%22silvas+Academi%22&lr=&sig=pymz2Xcnaldixpke_6QPFsNSGxk]]
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Related terms
* Akademeia
* academia
* academy
References
Similar to 'academe'acetone, actinide, actionee, astonie, axodine, asatone, acutance, actinote, azadiene, acteme, axstone, agatine, azetane, azetine, astomate
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