Academia is a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and peer-reviewed research, taken as a whole. The word comes from the akademeia just outside ancient Athens, where the Gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". By extension Academia has come to connote the cultural accumulation of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the 17th century, English and French religious scholars popularized the term to describe certain types of institutions of higher learning. The English adopted the form academy while the French adopted the forms acadème and académie.

An academic is a person who works as a researcher (and usually teacher) at a university or similar institution in post-secondary (or tertiary) education. He or she is nearly always an advanced degree holder who does peer-reviewed research. In the United States, the term academic is approximately synonymous with that of the job title professor. In the United Kingdom, various titles are used, typically fellow, lecturer, reader and professor (see also academic rank), though the loose term don is often popularly substituted. The term "scholar" is sometimes used with equivalent meaning to that of "academic" and describes in general those who attain mastery in research discipline. It has wider application in its being also used to describe those whose occupation was scientific or pseudo-scientific research prior to mass organised higher education.

Academic administrators are not typically included in this use of the term academic.

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@naferrari nada que uma academia não resolva hauahau
thamydorow (thamyres) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:34:11 -0000
@naferrari nada que uma academia não resolva hauahau
RT @abletras: “Se eu tuíto, tu tuítas e eles tuítam, a Academia também tuíta” – Diz Marcos Vilaça, presidente da ABL. Veja em: http://ti ...
lorenasarraf (Lorena) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:32:37 -0000
RT @abletras: “Se eu tuíto, tu tuítas e eles tuítam, a Academia também tuíta” – Diz Marcos Vilaça, presidente da ABL. Veja em: http://ti ...
Saudade da minha academia ahahhahah
joaovd (João Víctor Dias) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:28:06 -0000
Saudade da minha academia ahahhahah
@el_morris el disco de navidad de la academia LOL
Seeerch (Serch ) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:22:28 -0000
@el_morris el disco de navidad de la academia LOL
O evento do dia 18 da academia Body Fitness @bodyfitnesscg foi um sucesso. Muita diversão, alegria e só gente bonita. Parabéns!!!
brunobbrasil (Bruno Brasil) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:21:25 -0000
O evento do dia 18 da academia Body Fitness @bodyfitnesscg foi um sucesso. Muita diversão, alegria e só gente bonita. Parabéns!!!
@jmatuk que anda haciendo por el ausco inge?? Va a salir en la academia
candres_23 (andres_iz) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:20:39 -0000
@jmatuk que anda haciendo por el ausco inge?? Va a salir en la academia

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