academy

IPA: ʌkˈædʌmi

(classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.
(classical studies, usually capitalized) 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.
(with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.
A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
(UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
(classical studies, history) The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.
(classical studies) The disciples of Plato.
(classical studies, philosophy) Platonism.
A specific society of scholars or artists.

Examples of "academy" in Sentences

Adam the academy is a joke, has been for years stb247
This academy is a wonderful idea and I would love to teach there.
Our police academy is paramilitary, and those student officers have to follow ... the directions of their instructor.
Campbell "embodies what the academy is all about, and that's what everyone in this country should be trying to be," Millen said.
Seems that despite the popular propaganda perpetuated by the corporate media that the academy is a bastion for 'tenured radicals' is nowhere near the reality.
Several of those caught up in the probe say they expect the number of midshipmen who will be "separated" - the term academy officials use for expulsion - to reach more than a dozen.
Going back to France in the 1860s, the word "academy" has connoted everything avant-garde artists have clamored to escape: It meant state control of their careers and it forced them to work in a realistic style and within approved genres, such as history and mythology, instead of developing new kinds of art.