Canadian English Meaning of academy

academy

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Definitions and Meaning of academy in English

Wordnet

academy (n)

a secondary school (usually private)

an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

a school for special training

a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

Webster

academy (n.)

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.

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.

A place of training; a school.

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 of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the of Music.

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academy

a secondary school (usually private), an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature, a school for special training, a learned establishment

school,Academic world,Seminary,boarding school,Charter school,elementary school,elementary school,Grammar school,High school,junior high

No antonyms found.

academist => academic, academism => academism, academies => academies, academicism => Academicism, academicianship => academia,