"academy" Definition

Definitions for the word "academy" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A place of training; a school.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
(pl. -ies) 1 place of specialized training (military academy). 2 (usu. Academy) society or institution of distinguished scholars, artists, scientists, etc. (royal academy). 3 scot. Secondary school. [greek akademeia the place in athens where plato taught]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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