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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Examples of "academy" in Sentences
- The Academy is not a remedial program.
- He was the predecessor of this academy.
- The Academy is the mainstay of teaching.
- The Academy is located in the Roman Seminary.
- The shareholders originally owned the academy.
- There is an American academy of otolaryngology.
- The President is the elected head of the Academy.
- This brought in the skeptical phase of the Academy.
- Adam the academy is a joke, has been for years stb247
- This academy is a wonderful idea and I would love to teach there.
- The Air Force Academy is among the most selective colleges in the United States.
- Academy schools are flouting admission rules to select pupils from more privileged families.
- 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.