academy
Betekenis
- The garden where Plato taught.
- 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.
- A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
Frequentie
Met koppelteken als
acad‧e‧my
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/əˈkæd.ə.mi/
Etymologie
From French académie, from Latin acadēmīa, 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.
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