academy
nouncommon in dialogue
- United States//əˈkæd.ə.mi//
- Scotland//əˈkad.ə.me//
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
noun
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An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures
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A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy
Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
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A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology
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Academia.
In the academy and outside of it, the privileging of technical expertise above other forms of knowledge is a political gesture, and one that has proved highly effective in neutralizing critique of established power relations.
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A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
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A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
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The garden where Plato taught.
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Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
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obsoleteThe knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der. Classical Latin acadēmī̆ader. Middle English Achademia English academy From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a /acadēmī̆a, 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 Attic hero Akademos. Doublet of academe, academia, and Akademeia.
Forms
- plural
- academies
academy · An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
Academy · The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the…accelerate · To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to…accelerated · Moving or progressing faster than is usual.