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ACADEME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does academe mean?
• ACADEME (noun)
The noun ACADEME has 1 sense:
1. the academic world
Familiarity information: ACADEME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The academic world
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
academe; academia
Hypernyms ("academe" is a kind of...):
domain; world (people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest)
Meronyms (parts of "academe"):
college (the body of faculty and students of a college)
university (the body of faculty and students at a university)
Domain member category:
tenure (give life-time employment to)
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