academy

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Related terms 1.3.4 Translations

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[edit] Etymology

French académie < Latin acadēmīa < Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμια (Akadēmia), 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. Compare academe, academia, Akademeia.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /əˈkædəmi/, SAMPA: /@"k{d@mi/
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[edit] Noun

academy (plural academies)

1. A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
2. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
3. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university.
4. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
5. A place of training; a school.

   • Academies of fanaticism - David Hume

6. (obsolete, slang) A brothel (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue)

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• (brothel): pushing school

[edit] Derived terms

• Academy figure (Painting): a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.
• The academy (without reference to any specific academy) = academia.
• national academy
• Academy of Sciences
• academical

[edit] Related terms

• learned society

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