academy
Syllables: acad·e·myUK/əˈkæd.ə.mi/
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Scotland/əˈkad.ə.me/
academy noun: an institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
Noun
academy (plural academies)
- 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
- 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...1776, David Hume, The life of David Hume
- 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
- 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.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 9, in Crime out of Mind
- 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
- 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
- A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
- A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
- The garden where Plato taught.
- Synonyms:
- academe
- Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
- The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Academy
the Academy (uncountable)
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Academy
Academy (uncountable)
- A northern neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.
- A settlement in the city of Little River-Academy, Bell County, Texas.
academy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
academy in Hindi
- specialized school
- अकादमी akādmī
- learned society
- अकादमी akādmī
academy in Tamil
- சங்கம், அவை, கலை மன்றம், கலைஞர் மன்றம், கல்வி அல்லது பயிற்சி நிறுவனம், கல்வி நிலையம்
academy in Marathi
- academy
- प्रबोधिका prabodhikā
academy in Urdu
- specialized school
- اَکَیڈَمی akaiḍamī
- learned society
- اَکَیڈَمی akaiḍamī
More languagesFewer languages
- academy in Bengali
- অ্যাকাডেমি êkaḍemi
- academy in Malayalam
- അക്കാദമി akkādami
- academy in Kannada
- ಪೆರಲ್ಕಿಮನೆ, ಕಲಿಗಕೂಟ, ವಿದ್ಯಾಸಂಸ್ಥೆ, ಅಕಾಡೆಮಿ
- academy in Gujarati
- અકાદમી akādmī
- academy in Assamese
- একাডেমি ekademi
- academy in Pashto
- اکاډيمي akāḍemí
- academy in Tagalog
- talisikan, akademya, linangan
- academy in Arabic
- مَجْمَع majmaʕ, أَكَادِيمِيَّة ʔakādīmiyya, جَامِعَة jāmiʕa, مَعْهَد maʕhad
- academy in Malay
- akademi
- academy in Indonesian
- akademi
- academy in Thai
- สำนัก sǎm-nák, สถาบันการศึกษา sà-tǎa-ban-gaan-sʉ̀k-sǎa, วิทยาคาร wít-tá-yaa-kaan
- academy in Vietnamese
- học viện, viện hàn lâm
- academy in Myanmar
- အကယ်ဒမီ a.kaida.mi
Examples of academy in a sentence
- The academy was a prison for many of its students because of its strict teachers.
- Now, explicit politicking is banned by the academy, though writing to your friends is not.
- In fact, the Clinton administration seems practically a subsidiary of this academy of wonkdom.
Synonyms of academy
Forms of academy
| plural | academies |
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Origin of academy
From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a /acadēmī̆a, 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 academe, academia, and Akademeia.
From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a /acadēmī̆a, 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.
Words formed from academy
Phrases with academy
Questions about academy
- What does academy mean?
- Academy means an institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
- What is academy in Hindi?
- Academy in Hindi is अकादमी (akādmī). See Academy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is academy?
- Academy can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce academy?
- Academy is pronounced /əˈkæd.ə.mi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of academy?
- The plural of academy is academies.
Words near academy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: academy (page history and authors); Academy (page history and authors); academy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); प्रबोधिका (Marathi) (page history and authors); അക്കാദമി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); academy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); અકાદમી (Gujarati) (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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