academe

noun4

1. •
   (literary) The scholarly life, environment, or community.

   • 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
2. •
   (literary) An academy; a place of learning.

   • Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; / Our court shall be a little Academe,/ Still and contemplative in living art. — 1603
3. •
   (historical) The garden in Athens where the academics met.
4. •
   A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant.