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Etymology
From New Latin academia, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía); Doublet of academy. Academe (frequently capitalized) is a poetic name for the garden or grove near ancient Athens where Plato taught, supposedly named for its former owner, the hero Ἀκάδημος (Akademos; Ἑκάδημος, Hekademos).
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Noun
academe (plural academes)
- (historical) The garden in Athens where the academics met.
- (poetic) An academy; a place of learning.
- Synonym: academy
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.
- Synonym: academia
1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 74:His father expected him to enter the government or a major corporation upon graduation from the university, but Noboru Wataya chose to remain in academe and become a scholar.
- A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant.
- Synonym: pedant
Usage notes
- Poetic references are often to “the groves of Academe”, a translation of Horace’s inter silvas Academi.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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