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1. (n.) ivory tower
a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs:
the university as an ivory tower.
2. ivory tower
an attitude of aloofness from or disdain or disregard for worldly or practical affairs.
Etymology: (trans. of F tour d'ivoire, phrase used by C. A. Sainte-Beuve in reference to the isolated life of the poet A. de Vigny (1837))
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1. (noun) ivory tower
a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place
"he lived in the ivory tower of speculation"; "they viewed universities as ivory towers"
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