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Academy
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- 1 The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught. uncountable
- 2 A place in the United States:; A northern neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri. uncountable
- 3 The disciples of Plato. uncountable
- 4 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, South Dakota. uncountable
- 5 Platonism. uncountable
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- 6 A place in the United States:; A settlement in the city of Little River-Academy, Bell County, Texas. uncountable
- 7 A specific society of scholars or artists. uncountable
- 1 The garden where Plato taught. capitalized, usually
- 2 a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge wordnet
- 3 Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers. capitalized, usually
- 4 a school for special training wordnet
- 5 An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
"The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures"
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- 6 a secondary school (usually private) wordnet
- 7 A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
"the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy"
- 8 an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature wordnet
- 9 A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
"the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology"
- 10 The knowledge disseminated in an Academy. obsolete
- 11 Academia.
"In the academy and outside of it, the privileging of technical expertise above other forms of knowledge is a political gesture, and one that has proved highly effective in neutralizing critique of established power relations."
- 12 A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
- 13 A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school. UK
Etymology
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 academe, academia, and Akademeia.
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.
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.
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