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Definition: Academe |
AcademeNoun1. The academic world. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "academe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Etymology: Academe \Ac`a*deme"\, noun. [Latin expression academia. See Academy.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: AcademeSynonym: academia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Academe |
| English words defined with "academe": Baron Snow of Leicester ♦ C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow ♦ snow. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Horace | And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. |
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| "Academe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.30% of the time. "Academe" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.3% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (common) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "academe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | université (academy). (various references) | |
Greek | ακαδημία (academy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | academeay.(various references) | |
Russian | акадения. (various references) | |
Spanish | academia (academia, academy, literary or artistic persons, school, society of learned). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trường đại học (college). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "academe": academes. (additional references) | |
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"Academe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acade, academi, academie, Aceldama, Aiadmk, Akadake, Akademi, Akadimpex, Ayayem, Caedewen, Saladene. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-m" | |
-2 letters: adeem, edema, maced. | |
-3 letters: aced, acme, cade, came, cede, dace, dame, deem, deme, mace, made, mead, meed. | |
-4 letters: ace, ama, cad, cam, cee, dam, dee, eme, mac, mad, mae, med. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, ae, am, de, ed, em, ma, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-m" | |
+1 letter: academes. | |
+2 letters: academies, acetamide, damascene, demarcate, emaciated, macerated. | |
+3 letters: acetamides, damascened, damascenes, demarcated, demarcates, shamefaced. | |
+4 letters: advancement, aeromedical, camaraderie, caramelised, caramelized, emancipated, emasculated, embarcadero, hexadecimal. | |
+5 letters: advancements, camaraderies, embarcaderos, hexadecimals, jackhammered, shamefacedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 61 64 65 6D 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. .- -.. . -- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01100001 01100100 01100101 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c a d e m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0061 0064 0065 006D 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35696770717971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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