Academia is the world of universities and research as a whole. A career in academia, leave academia, academia and industry.
It has its own economy — publication, citation, grants — and the incentives it creates are argued about constantly by the people inside it. The name goes back to the Academy: the grove outside Athens where Plato taught, itself named after a local hero called Akademos.
1nounacademiaThe world of universities and research as a whole.
“After twenty years in academia, she left the university to work for a bank.”
academia is a world of work.
Plato taught in a garden of trees outside Athens, and the garden had a name. Every university since has been living in it.
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New Latin academia comes from Greek Akademia, the grove outside Athens where Plato taught, named after the hero Akademos.
New Latin
acadēmī̆a
English, today
academia
Borrowed from New Latin acadēmī̆a. New Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία, 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. a doublet of academe and academy and Akademeia. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA