academy
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)academies
- a secondary school (usually private)Type of secondary school, lyceum
- an institution for the advancement of art or science or literatureSynonyms: honorary societyType of institution, establishmentKinds Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, French Academy, Royal Society, Royal Academy, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, National Academy of SciencesMembers academician
- a school for special trainingType of schoolKinds yeshiva, military academy, naval academy, police academy, air force academy, Plato's Academy
- a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledgeType of establishment
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Translations
Noun specialized school
- Spanish
- academia
- French
- académie
- German
- Akademie
- Italian
- accademia
- Portuguese
- academia
- Turkish
- akademi
- Russian
- акаде́мия akadémija
- Arabic
- أَكَادِيمِيَّة ʔakādīmiyya
- Chinese
- 学院 xuéyuàn
- Japanese
- アカデミー akademī
26 more languages
- Dutch
- academie
- Polish
- akademia
- Swedish
- akademi
- Greek
- ακαδημία akadimía
- Korean
- 아카데미 akademi
- Indonesian
- akademi
- Vietnamese
- học viện
- Hungarian
- akadémia
- Portuguese (PT)
- academia
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 學院 xuéyuàn
- Catalan
- acadèmia
- Czech
- akademie
- Danish
- akademi
- Esperanto
- akademio
- Finnish
- akatemia
- Georgian
- აკადემია aḳademia
- Hebrew
- אֲקָדֶמְיָה akadémya
- Icelandic
- akademía
- Latvian
- akadēmija
- Lithuanian
- akademija
- Norwegian
- akademi
- Romanian
- academie
- Scottish Gaelic
- acadamaidh
- Serbo-Croatian
- akademija
- Slovenian
- akademija
- Welsh
- academi
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. académie, L. academia. Cf. Academe.
1. A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
2. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
3. A place of training; a school. “Academies of fanaticism.” David Hume
4. 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.
5. 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.
Academy figure Painting, a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54