academe

/ˈækəˌdim/

Other forms: academes

Use the noun academe when you're talking about a college or university community. The world of academe can be a little intimidating when you're a freshman.

Academe is the community and scholarly environment within an institution of higher education, and it's more often called "academia." Professors, graduate students, researchers, and undergraduates all contribute to the environment of academe, and if you plan on teaching at a university some day, you hope to enter academe. The earliest meaning, from the Greek word Akademeia, was simply "The Academy."

Definitions of academe

1. noun

   the community or environment of colleges and universities
   synonyms: academia

   type of:

   domain, world

   people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest