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acad

acad is the abbreviation of academy.

acad is the clipping of academic.

Meaning of academy

Noun

academy (plural academies)

  1. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
    • The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures1760–5, Tobias Smollett, The history of England from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George II, published 1805, page 449
  2. 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
  3. 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
    Synonyms:
    learned society
  4. Academia.
    • 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.2016, Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities
  5. A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
  6. (UK) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.

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Meaning of academic

Noun

academic (plural academics)

  1. (capitalized, usually) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
  2. A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
    • Academics[…]see integrated systems for collecting, processing and acting on data as offering a “second electrification” to the world’s metropolises.2013 September 7, “The multiplexed metropolis”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852
  3. A member of the Academy; an academician.
    • Carneades the academick, when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
  4. (archaic) A student in a college.
  5. (plural, plural-only) Academic dress; academicals.
  6. (plural, plural-only) Academic studies.
    • Many spoke of an intense fear of failing one’s academics at university, which can both be highly motivating to secure academic success (sometimes at the cost of socialising), but can also immobilise one’s desire to try harder as it can be rather disappointing if one does not succeed. […] Many...2021 July 25, Jiedi Lei, and Ailsa Russell, “Understanding the role of self-determination in shaping university experiences for autistic and typically developing students in the United Kingdom”, in...

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Proper noun capitalized: Acad

Acad

  1. A barangay of Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.

Forms of acad

pluralacads

Questions about acad

What does acad mean?
Acad means a barangay of Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
What is acad the abbreviation of?
Acad is the abbreviation of academy.
What part of speech is acad?
Acad is a proper noun.

Words near acad in the dictionary

  1. acaciins
  2. acacin
  3. acacine
  4. acacio
  5. Acacius
  6. acad
  7. acad.
  8. acada
  9. acadas
  10. academe
  11. academented

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acad (page history and authors); Acad (page history and authors); academy (page history and authors); academic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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