Definition of "academe"

academe

/ˈæk.ə.diːm/

noun
plural academes
1. (historical) The garden in Athens where the academics met.
2. (poetic) An academy; a place of learning.
  Quotations
  Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; / Our court shall be a little Academe,/ Still and contemplative in living art.
  1603, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
3. (poetic) The scholarly life, environment, or community.
  Quotations
  If it did nothing else, Homosexuality: Social, Psychological, and Biological Issues shows that the basic tenet of gay liberation—that is, viewing gayness as having an intrinsic validity—has finally entered and taken root in the groves of academe.
  1983 December 3, Michael Bronski, “Homosexuality: Social, Psychological and Biological Issues (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 10
  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.
  1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, page 74
4. A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant.