An academy or place of learning; the scholarly and intellectual community as a whole.
Variant spelling of academe, sometimes used to emphasize the stress on the final syllable (with the accent shifted to -deme rather than on the initial syllable). This represents different pronunciation traditions across English-speaking regions.
The word 'academe' has pronunciation variants based on which syllable you stress—some scholars stress ACA-deme while others stress aca-DEME—and both are 'correct,' showing how even educated communities can split on how to say prestigious words.
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