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ACADEMIAS
Definition of ACADEMIAS
Wiktionary has no entry for ACADEMIAS itself. This is its base word, ACADEMIA.
noun
The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for ACADEMIA.
Borrowed from New Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attica hero Akademos. Doublet of academe, academy, and Akademeia. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,501)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ACADEMIAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACADEMIAS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAACDEIMS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start ACADEM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ACADEMIAS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
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