<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the campus activity, life, and interests of a college or university; the academic world.</li><li>Sometimes Academe.</li><li>any place of instruction; a school.</li><li>a person living in, accustomed to, or preferring the environment of a university.</li><li>a scholarly or pedantic person, especially a teacher or student.</li><li>Academe, the public grove in Athens in which Plato taught.</li></ul>