English Explanatory Dictionary

academy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
  2. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
  3. A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
  4. Academia.
  5. A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
  6. A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
  7. The garden where Plato taught.
  8. Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
  9. The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
name
  1. The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.
  2. The disciples of Plato.
  3. Platonism.
  4. A specific society of scholars or artists.
name
  1. A place in the United States:
  2. A northern neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
  3. An unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.
  4. A settlement in the city of Little River-Academy, Bell County, Texas.

Pronunciation

/əˈkæd.ə.mi/ en-us-academy.ogg /əˈkad.ə.mɪ/ /əˈkæɖəmi/ /əkəˈɖɛmi/

Word forms

academy academies the Academy

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der. Classical Latin acadēmī̆ader. Middle English Achademia English academy 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.

Synonyms

learned society academe

Related words

academe academia academic academical academically academician academicism academics Akademi academentia academy Akademeia

Derived words

academese academism academite academy blue academy board academy chain academy figure academy leader Academy of Sciences academy school floating academy interacademy laughing academy military academy multi-academy trust national academy POLAC riding academy service academy youth academy

Translations

Afrikaans: akademie Albanian: akademi Arabic: مَجْمَع Arabic: أَكَادِيمِيَّة Azerbaijani: akademiya Belarusian: акадэ́мія Bengali: অ্যাকাডেমি Bulgarian: акаде́мия Burmese: အကယ်ဒမီ Catalan: acadèmia Chinese Mandarin: 學院 /学院 Czech: akademie Danish: akademi Dutch: academie Esperanto: akademio Estonian: akadeemia Finnish: opisto Finnish: akatemia French: académie Georgian: აკადემია German: Akademie Greek: ακαδημία Hebrew: אֲקָדֶמְיָה Hindi: अकादमी Hungarian: főiskola Hungarian: iskola Hungarian: akadémia Icelandic: skóli Icelandic: háskóli Icelandic: akademía Indonesian: akademi Irish: acadamh Italian: accademia Japanese: 専門学校 Japanese: 学院 Japanese: アカデミー Kalmyk: академ Kazakh: академия Khmer: បណ្ឌិត្យសភា Korean: 학원 Korean: 아카데미 Kyrgyz: академия Lao: ວິທະຍາຄານ Lao: ບັນດິດສະຖານ Latvian: akadēmija Lithuanian: akademija Macedonian: академија Malay: akademi Mongolian: академи Norwegian Bokmål: akademi
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