academy
IPA: ʌkˈædʌmi
noun
- (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.
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