academy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkæd.ə.mi/
ipa: /əˈkad.ə.mɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈkæɖəmi/
note: Indic
ipa: /əkəˈɖɛmi/
Forms: form: academies
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 academia and Akademeia; compare academe.
Senses: topics: classical-studies
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The garden where Plato taught.
topics: classical-studies
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
examples: text: The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures
ref: 1760–5, Tobias Smollett, The history of England from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George II, published 1805, page 449:
text: 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".
ref: 1776, David Hume, The life of David Hume:
glosses: An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
examples: text: the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy
text: 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.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 9, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
examples: text: the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology
glosses: A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
glosses: The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2016, Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities:
glosses: Academia.
raw_tags: with the
without reference to any specific academy
glosses: A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
topics: education
glosses: A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
Synonyms: sense: society of learned people
word: 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
Akademi
floating academy
interacademy
laughing academy
military academy
multi-academy trust
national academy
POLAC
riding academy
service academy
youth academy
Related terms: academic
academical
academically
academician
academicism
academics