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An ivory tower is a metaphorical place—or an atmosphere—where people are happily cut off from the rest of the world in favor of their own pursuits, usually mental and esoteric ones. From the 19th century, it has been used to designate an environment of intellectual pursuit disconnected from the practical concerns of everyday life. [1]
ivory tower: [noun] an impractical often escapist attitude marked by aloof lack of concern with or interest in practical matters or urgent problems.
Ivory tower definition: a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs. See examples of IVORY TOWER used in a sentence.
The first mention of ivory towers is in the Bible, Song of Solomon 7:4 (King James Version): Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. That biblical allusion is to the notion of ivory towers as symbols of virginal purity.
IVORY TOWER definition: 1. To live or be in an ivory tower is not to know about or to want to avoid the ordinary and…. Learn more.
Britannica Dictionary definition of IVORY TOWER. [count] disapproving. : a place or situation in which people make and discuss theories about problems (such as poverty and racism) without having any experience with those problems. The book was written by some college professor who's spent her entire professional life in an ivory tower.
