academy

Meaning

1. The garden where Plato taught.
2. Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
3. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
4. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
5. A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
6. (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
7. Academia.
8. A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
9. A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.

Synonyms

college

institute

school

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university

institution

honorary society

seminary

secondary school

research institute

senate

vocational school

academy figure

society

Academy of Sciences

academic circles

academia

school

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art school

assembly

campus

council

foundation

grammar school

preparatory school

Hyphenated as

acad‧e‧my

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈkæd.ə.mi/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

It also has a airport which is used by a flying academy .