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1. (n.) academy
a secondary or high school, esp. a private one.
2. academy
a school or college for special instruction or training in a subject:
a military academy.
3. academy
an association for the advancement of art, literature, or science.
4. academy
a group of authorities and leaders in a field of scholarship, art, etc., who are often permitted to dictate standards, prescribe methods, and criticize new ideas.
5. academy
the Academy,
6. academy
the Platonic school of philosophy or its adherents.
7. academy
the public grove in Athens where Plato taught.
Etymology: (1470–80; < L acadēmīa < Gk akadēmeia=Akádēm(os) a legendary Attic hero after whom the grove and gymnasium where Plato taught were named +-eia n. suffix (cf. -ia ))
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) academy
a secondary school (usually private)
2. (noun) academy, honorary society
an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature
3. (noun) academy
a school for special training
4. (noun) academy
a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) academy
a garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head
2. (noun) academy
an institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school
3. (noun) academy
a place of training; a school
4. (noun) academy
a society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology
5. (noun) academy
a school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. academy
a public shady park or place of groves near Athens, where Plato taught his philosophy and whence his school derived its name, of which there are three branches, the Old, the Middle, and the New, represented respectively by Plato himself, Arcesilaos, and Carneades. The French Academy, of forty members, was founded by Richelieu in 1635, and is charged with the interests of the French language and literature, and in particular with the duty of compiling an authoritative dictionary of the French language. Besides these, there are in France other four with a like limited membership in the interest of other departments of science and art, all now associated in the Institute of France, which consists in all of 229 members. There are similar institutions in other states of Europe, all of greater or less note.
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Sense: a higher school for special study
Academy of Music.
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 Afrikaans: akademie |
 Arabic: أكَادِيمِيَّه |
 Bulgarian: школа |
 Brazilian: academia |
 Czech: akademie |
 German: die Akademie |
 Danish: akademi; højskole |
 Greek: ακαδημία |
 Spanish: academia |
 Estonian: akadeemia |
 Farsi: دانشکده |
 Finnish: korkeakoulu |
 French: académie |
 Hebrew: אֲקָדֶמִיה |
 Hindi: शिक्षा या शोध संस्थान |
 Croatian: akademija |
 Hungarian: főiskola |
 Indonesian: akademi |
 Icelandic: háskóli; æðri menntastofn |
 Italian: accademia |
 Japanese: 専門学校 |
 Korean: 전문 학교 |
 Lithuanian: akademija |
 Latvian: akadēmija; augstskola |
 Malay: Akademi muzik |
 Dutch: academie |
 Norwegian: høyskole |
 Polish: akademia, szkoła wyższa |
 Persian: اكادمى |
 Pashto: اكاډمى |
 Portuguese: academia |
 Romanian: academie |
 Russian: академия |
 Slovak: akadémia |
 Slovenian: akademija |
 Serbian: akademija |
 Swedish: akademi |
 Thai: โรงเรียน |
 Turkish: akademi |
 Taiwanese: 學院 |
 Ukrainian: училище, школа |
 Urdu: اعلیٰ تعلیمی ادارہ |
 Vietnamese: học viện |
 Chinese: （高等）專科院校 |
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