ACADEMY

Academy

An academy is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

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academy

Noun

  1. The garden where Plato taught.
  2. Plato's philosophical system based on sketpicism; Plato's followers. <ref name=SOED/>
  3. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. <ref name=SOED/>
  4. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught. <ref name=SOED/>
    the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
  5. A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science. <ref name=SOED/>
    the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
  6. The knowledge disseminated in an Academy. <ref name=SOED/>
  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.


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