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.

Concepts

academy

college

institute

school

university

institution

honorary society

seminary

secondary school

academia

campus

foundation

grammar school

academic circles

academy figure

assembly

council

senate

society

research institute

Academy of Sciences

preparatory school

art school

vocational 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 .