academy

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: acad‧e‧my (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /əˈkæd.ə.mi/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /əˈkad.ə.mɪ/ (Indic) IPA(key): /əˈkæɖəmi/, /əkəˈɖɛmi/ === Noun === academy (plural academies) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. [First attested in the mid 16th century.] A school or place of training in which some special art is taught. [First attested in the late 16th century.] A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science. [First attested in the early 17th century.] (with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia. 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; a charter school. (classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.] Synonym: academe (classical studies, usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers. [First attested in the mid 16th century.] (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 18th century.] ==== Synonyms ==== (society of learned people): learned society ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “academy, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.