# academy
## English
### 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

* (UK, US) IPA: /əˈkæd.ə.mi/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (Scotland) IPA: /əˈkad.ə.mɪ/
* Hyphenation: acad‧e‧my

### Noun

academy (plural academies)
* (classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
* (classical studies, usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
* An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
** 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. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
    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. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
    the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology
* (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 18th century.]
* (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.

#### Synonyms

* (society of learned people): learned society

#### Derived terms

* academe
* academese
* academia
* Academism
* academism
* academite
* academy blue
* academy board
* academy chain
* academy figure
* academy leader
* Academy of Sciences
* academy school
* floating academy
* interacademy
* laughing academy
* military academy
* multi-academy trust
* national academy
* POLAC
* riding academy
* youth academy

#### Related terms

* academic
* academical
* academically
* academician
* academicism
* academics

#### Translations

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### References

* “academy, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.