A British, private, government-funded computer network dedicated to education and research. Abbreviation: JANET.

(classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.

(now chiefly US) A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.

plural of academicism

plural of academician

A membership in a national academy of arts or sciences

The governing body of a Scottish university, consisting of the principal and professors.

(nonce word, derogatory) Made academic; divorced from reality and made abstruse or pedantic.

plural of academick

simple past tense and past participle of academicize