academe

akateeminen maailma puhekieltä The name of the garden in Athens where the academics met. (defdate)Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
puhekieltä An academy; a place of learning. (defdate)
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puhekieltä The scholarly life, environment, or community. (defdate)
A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant. (defdate)