academy
(Anglès)
- (capitalized, usually) The garden where Plato taught.
- (capitalized, usually) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
- An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
- A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
- A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
- (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
- Academia.
- A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
- (UK) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/əˈkæd.ə.mi/
Etimologia (Anglès)
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 academia and Akademeia; compare academe.
Related words
honorary society
research institute
academic circles
preparatory school
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