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a⋅cad⋅e⋅my
[uh-kad-uh-mee] 
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–noun, plural -mies.
| 1. | a secondary or high school, esp. a private one. |
| 2. | a school or college for special instruction or training in a subject: a military academy. |
| 3. | an association or institution for the advancement of art, literature, or science: the National Academy of Arts and Letters. |
| 4. | a group of authorities and leaders in a field of scholarship, art, etc., who are often permitted to dictate standards, prescribe methods, and criticize new ideas. |
| 5. | the Academy,
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| a·cad·e·my (ə-kād'ə-mē) n. pl. a·cad·e·mies
[Latin Acadēmīa, the school where Plato taught, from Greek Akadēmeia.] |
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Academy
A*cad"e*my\, n.; pl. Academies. [F. acad['e]mie, 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." --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 (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.
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Language Translation for : ACADEMY
Spanish:
academia,
German:
die Akademie,
Japanese:
専門学校
academy
1474, from L. academia, from Gk. Akademeia "grove of Akademos," a legendary Athenian of the Trojan War tales (his name apparently means "of a silent district"), whose estate, six stadia from Athens, was the enclosure where Plato taught his school. Sense broadened 16c. into any school or training place. Poetic form Academe first attested 1588 in sense of "academy;" 1849 with meaning "the world of universities and scholarship," from phrase the groves of Academe, translating Horace's silvas Academi; in this sense, Academia is recorded from 1956. Academic "relating to an academy" first recorded 1586; sense of "not leading to a decision" (like university debates or classroom legal exercises) is from 1886. Academy awards (1941) so called for their distributor, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Academy
in ancient Greece, the academy, or college, of philosophy in the northwestern outskirts of Athens, where Plato acquired property about 387 BC and used to teach. At the site there had been an olive grove, park, and gymnasium sacred to the legendary Attic hero Academus (or Hecademus).
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