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Academy Awards

Academy Awards is the plural of Academy Award.

Meaning of Academy Award

Noun

Academy Award (plural Academy Awards)

  1. An award in any of various fields related to moviemaking, most prominently acting, generally awarded at a televised gala to winners who then speak; commonly used to indicate a person has been lying with great skill.
    • Lola's performance was academy award standard.1959, Marc Brody, Low Dive for Lola, page xv. 70

Proper noun

Academy Awards

  1. The ceremony at which Academy Award winners are announced and receive their prizes.

Questions about Academy Awards

What does Academy Awards mean?
Academy Awards means the ceremony at which Academy Award winners are announced and receive their prizes.
What is Academy Awards the plural of?
Academy Awards is the plural of Academy Award.
What part of speech is Academy Awards?
Academy Awards is a proper noun.

Words near Academy Awards in the dictionary

  1. academizes
  2. academizing
  3. Academus
  4. academy
  5. Academy Award
  6. Academy Awards
  7. academy blue
  8. academy board
  9. academy boards
  10. academy chain
  11. academy chains

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Academy Awards (page history and authors); Academy Award (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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