Synonyms of academe

academe

noun

ˈa-kə-ˌdēm 

as in school

a place or establishment for teaching and learning

the cloistered and privileged world inhabited by the students in that suburban academe

Synonyms & Similar Words

• school
• academy
• seminary
• kindergarten
• high school
• public school
• yeshivah
• junior high school
• prep school
• senior high school
• preparatory school
• secondary school
• prep
• trade school
• elementary school
• primary school
• grammar school
• boarding school
• common school
• middle school
• charter school
• madrasa
• yeshiva
• madrassah
• magnet school
• madrasah
• Sunday school
• training school
• minischool
• madrassa

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of academe

Pragmatism begins on the streets and exchanges, and is later articulated in the halls of academe. —Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022

Unless academe provides more encouragement and professional incentives for such efforts, the critical dialogues and community exchanges the public is asking for will not happen on the scale that is required. —Guest, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2017

Nor is the Dunning School itself anomalous in the history of American academe. —Michael Bérubé, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022

Although academe may dismiss the Galileo Project as nothing more than pandering to a gullible public, such prejudice is unhelpful and myopic. —Seth Shostak, Scientific American, 29 July 2021