[uh-kad-uh-mee] 
| 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.] |
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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