Academy

Quick meaning: Academy is a noun meaning An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.

Meaning

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.

More Meanings

1. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
2. A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
3. (with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.
4. A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
5. (UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
6. (classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.
7. (classical studies, usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.

Example Sentences

the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology

the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy

The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures

Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.

Word Forms

• academies

Synonyms for academy

Depending on context, synonyms include academe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include academic, centre, academia, academician, college, faculty.

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