academia

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 academe, academy, and Akademeia. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæk.əˈdiː.mɪ.ə/, enPR: ăk'ədēʹmēə; (variant) IPA^(key): /ˌæk.əˈdeɪ.mɪ.ə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæk.əˈdi.mi.ə/, /ˌæk.əˈdi.mjə/, /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.i.ə/, /-ˈdɛm.jə/;^[1][2][3] (variant) IPA^(key): /ˌæk.əˈdeɪ.mi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːmiə, -iːmjə, -ɛmjə

academia (uncountable)

1. (collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole. [from 1956]

   Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.

   • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 July 2020:

     Since the launch early last year of  […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

2. Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.

   Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.

• academia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Spanish academia.

• IPA^(key): /akaˈdemja/
• Rhymes: -emja
• Syllabification: a‧ca‧de‧mia

academia f (plural academias)

1. academy

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[2], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 37

academia f (plural academies)

1. academy

• Acadēmīa (the Platonic Academy)

From Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), variant form of Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.ka.deːˈmiː.a], [a.kaˈdeː.mi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.ka.deˈmiː.a], [a.kaˈdɛː.mi.a]

acadēmī̆a f (genitive acadēmī̆ae); first declension

1. academy, academe

First-declension noun.

• acadēmicus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.ka.deːˈmiː.aː], [a.kaˈdeː.mi.aː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.ka.deˈmiː.a], [a.kaˈdɛː.mi.a]

ăcădēmī̆ā f

1. ablative singular of ăcădēmī̆a

• “academia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “academia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• academia in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “academia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Borrowed from Latin acadēmīa.

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• Hyphenation: a‧ca‧de‧mi‧a

academia f (plural academias)

1. academy
2. (Brazil) gym, fitness center

   Synonym: (Portugal) ginásio

3. (Rio de Janeiro) hopscotch

   Synonyms: (Brazil) amarelinha, (Portugal) macaca

• academizar

• académia, acadêmia
• académico

• “academia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “academia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin acadēmīa.

• IPA^(key): /akaˈdemja/ [a.kaˈð̞e.mja]

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• Rhymes: -emja
• Syllabification: a‧ca‧de‧mia

academia f (plural academias)

1. academy
   • 2021 November 20, Ana Cucalón, “Venezuela logra récord Guinness con la orquesta más grande del mundo”, in CNN en Español‎^[4]:

     La interpretación de la marcha eslava realizada el sábado 13 de noviembre en el patio de honor de la academia militar de Caracas ganó el récord Guinness cómo la orquesta más grande del mundo al superar los 8.097 músicos tocando de forma simultánea por más de 5 minutos.

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• → Cebuano: akademiya
• → Ilocano: akademia
• → Tagalog: akademya

• “academia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025