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Etymology
From French académie, from Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos. Doublet of academia and Akademeia; compare academe.
Pronunciation
Noun
academy (plural academies)
- (classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.
- (classical studies, usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
- An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
1760–5, Tobias Smollett, The history of England from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George II, published 1805, page 449:The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures
1776, David Hume, The life of David Hume:In this year 1633, I became acquainted with Nicholas Fiske, licentiate in physic, who was born in Suffolk, near Framingham* Castle, of very good parentage, who educated him at country schools, until he was fit for the university; but he went not to the academy, studying at home both astrology and physic, which he afterwards practised in Colchester; and there was well acquainted with Dr Gilbert, who wrote "De Magnete".
- A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.; a music academy; a language academy
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 9, in Crime out of Mind:Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
- A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
- (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
- (with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.
2016, Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities:In the academy and outside of it, the privileging of technical expertise above other forms of knowledge is a political gesture, and one that has proved highly effective in neutralizing critique of established power relations.
- A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
- (UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
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specialized school
- Afrikaans: akademie
- Albanian: akademi (sq) f
- Arabic: مَجْمَع m (majmaʕ), أَكَادِيمِيَّة f (ʔakādīmiyya)
- Azerbaijani: akademiya (az)
- Belarusian: акадэ́мія f (akadémija)
- Bulgarian: акаде́мия (bg) f (akadémija)
- Burmese: အကယ်ဒမီ (my) (a.kaida.mi)
- Catalan: acadèmia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 學院/学院 (zh) (xuéyuàn)
- Czech: akademie (cs) f
- Danish: akademi n
- Dutch: academie (nl) f
- Esperanto: akademio
- Estonian: akadeemia
- Finnish: opisto (fi), akatemia (fi)
- French: académie (fr) f
- Georgian: აკადემია (aḳademia)
- German: Akademie (de) f
- Greek: ακαδημία (el) f (akadimía)
- Hebrew: אֲקָדֶמְיָה (he) f (akadémya)
- Hindi: अकादमी f (akādmī)
- Hungarian: főiskola (hu), iskola (hu), akadémia (hu)
- Irish: acadamh m
- Italian: accademia (it) m
- Japanese: 専門学校 (ja) (せんもんがっこう, senmon gakkō), 学院 (ja) (がくいん, gakuin), アカデミー (ja) (akademī)
- Kalmyk: академ (akadem)
- Korean: 학원 (ko) (hagwon), 아카데미 (ko) (akademi)
- Latvian: akadēmija f
- Lithuanian: akademija (lt) f
- Macedonian: академија f (akademija)
- Malay: akademi
- Mongolian: академи (mn) (akademi)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: akademi (no) n
- Nynorsk: akademi n
- Pashto: اکاډيمي (ps) f (akāḍemí)
- Persian: آکادمی (fa) (âkâdemi)
- Polish: akademia (pl) f
- Portuguese: academia (pt) f
- Romanian: academie (ro) f
- Russian: акаде́мия (ru) f (akadémija), вы́сшее уче́бное заведе́ние (ru) n (výsšeje učébnoje zavedénije), вуз (ru) m (vuz) (assimilated abbreviation)
- Scottish Gaelic: acadamaidh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: академија f
- Roman: akademija (sh) f
- Slovak: akadémia f
- Slovene: akademija (sl) f
- Spanish: cantera (es) f
- Swedish: akademi (sv) c
- Tagalog: talisikan
- Turkish: akademi (tr)
- Ukrainian: акаде́мія (uk) f (akadémija)
- Vietnamese: học viện (vi)
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college or university
- Afrikaans: akademie
- Arabic: مَجْمَع m (majmaʕ), جَامِعَة (ar) f (jāmiʕa), مَعْهَد m (maʕhad), أَكَادِيمِيَّة f (ʔakādīmiyya)
- Belarusian: акадэ́мія f (akadémija)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 學院/学院 (zh) (xuéyuàn)
- Dutch: academie (nl) f, universiteit (nl), college (nl)
- Finnish: yliopisto (fi), korkeakoulu (fi)
- French: académie (fr) f
- German: Akademie (de), akademische Einrichtung f
- Greek: ακαδημία (el) f (akadimía)
- Hungarian: főiskola (hu)
- Irish: acadamh m
- Italian: accademia (it)
- Japanese: 学園 (ja) (がくえん, gakuen), 学院 (ja) (がくいん, gakuin)
- Kalmyk: академ (akadem)
- Latvian: akadēmija f
- Malay: akademi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: akademi (no) n
- Nynorsk: akademi n
- Persian: دانشگاه (fa) (dânešgâh)
- Polish: akademia (pl) f
- Portuguese: academia (pt) f
- Romanian: academie (ro) f, universitate (ro) f
- Russian: акаде́мия (ru) f (akadémija)
- Scottish Gaelic: acadamaidh f
- Slovene: akademija (sl) f
- Swedish: akademi (sv) c
- Tagalog: talisikan
- Turkish: akademi (tr), yüksekokul (tr)
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place of training, school
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.