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单词 ivory tower
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Word forms: plural ivory towers
countable noun [NOUN noun]
If you describe someone as living in an ivory tower, you mean that they have no knowledge or experience of the practical problems of everyday life.
[disapproval]
Jenkins should get down from his ivory tower and sample the real world.
...ivory-tower intellectuals.
Synonyms: seclusion, remoteness, unreality, retreat More Synonyms of ivory tower

ivory tower in British English

(ˈtaʊə)
noun
a. 
seclusion or remoteness of attitude regarding real problems, everyday life, etc
b. 
(as modifier)
ivory-tower aestheticism
Derived forms
ivory-towered (ˌivory-ˈtowered)
adjective

ivory tower in American English

a condition or place, as academia, regarded as isolated or withdrawn from the practical affairs of society

Examples of 'ivory tower' in a sentence
ivory tower

Unlike many of their colleagues, they were not just working in ivory towers.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Those who have examined innovation closely know that it is a myth that it comes from brilliant thinkers, let alone ones who live in ivory towers.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
He put his abilities to better use when he descended from the ivory tower.
Stewart Lamont WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativityand Exploration (2002)
The idea of an ivory tower university where reason and disinterested study reign supreme bears little relation to reality.
Salkie, Raphael The Chomsky Update - Linguistics and Politics (1990)
He hid in no ivory tower.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This may be the life of the mind, but it is no ivory tower.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Judges live in ivory towers - or so the myth goes.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He's not interested in being a cosseted designer shut away in an ivory tower.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Instead of putting me off in some ivory tower somewhere, it puts me deeper into contact with reality.
Christianity Today (2000)
It's all very well as a large company sitting in your ivory tower but if you have two months with no sales you are in trouble.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
For the price of two torpedoes'we could live in ivory towers for the rest of our lives '.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
(noun) 
Definition
remoteness from the realities of everyday life
In their ivory tower they don't realise how pernicious it is.
Synonyms
seclusion
They love the seclusion of their garden.
remoteness
unreality
retreat
He spent yesterday in his country retreat.
refuge
We climbed up a winding track towards a mountain refuge.
cloister
sanctum
His bedroom is his inner sanctum.
splendid isolation
world of your own

Additional synonyms

in the sense of refuge
Definition
a place, person, or thing that offers protection or help
We climbed up a winding track towards a mountain refuge.
Synonyms
haven,
resort,
retreat,
harbour,
sanctuary,
hideaway,
hide-out,
bolt hole,
place of safety
in the sense of retreat
Definition
a place to which one may retire, esp. for religious contemplation
He spent yesterday in his country retreat.
Synonyms
refuge,
haven,
resort,
retirement,
shelter,
haunt,
asylum,
privacy,
den,
sanctuary,
hideaway,
seclusion
in the sense of sanctum
Definition
a room or place of total privacy
His bedroom is his inner sanctum.
Synonyms
refuge,
retreat,
den,
hideaway,
private room,
hide-out

Nearby words of
ivory tower

  • iterate
  • itinerant
  • itinerary
  • ivory tower
  • ivory-towered
  • jab
  • jabber

Synonyms of 'ivory tower'

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