academy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: classical-studies
education
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der.
Classical Latin acadēmī̆ader.
Middle English Achademia
English 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.
Inflected forms:
form: academies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
pos: noun
examples: The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures
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".
gloss: A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
pos: noun
examples: the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology
gloss: Academia.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
pos: noun
gloss: A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: The garden where Plato taught.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
usually
gloss: Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
usually
gloss: The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: academe
academia
academic
academical
academically
academician
academicism
academics
Akademi
Derived words: academese
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
service academy
youth academy
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: akademie
lang: Albanian
word: akademi
lang: Arabic
word: مَجْمَع
roman: majmaʕ
lang: Arabic
word: أَكَادِيمِيَّة
roman: ʔakādīmiyya
lang: Azerbaijani
word: akademiya
lang: Belarusian
word: акадэ́мія
roman: akadémija
lang: Bengali
word: অ্যাকাডেমি
roman: êkaḍemi
lang: Bulgarian
word: акаде́мия
roman: akadémija
lang: Burmese
word: အကယ်ဒမီ
roman: a.kaida.mi
lang: Catalan
word: acadèmia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 學院 /学院
roman: xuéyuàn
lang: Czech
word: akademie
lang: Danish
word: akademi
lang: Dutch
word: academie
lang: Esperanto
word: akademio
lang: Estonian
word: akadeemia
lang: Finnish
word: opisto
lang: Finnish
word: akatemia
lang: French
word: académie
lang: Georgian
word: აკადემია
roman: aḳademia
lang: German
word: Akademie
lang: Greek
word: ακαδημία
roman: akadimía
lang: Hebrew
word: אֲקָדֶמְיָה
roman: akadémya
lang: Hindi
word: अकादमी
roman: akādmī
lang: Hungarian
word: főiskola
lang: Hungarian
word: iskola
lang: Hungarian
word: akadémia
lang: Icelandic
word: skóli
lang: Icelandic
word: háskóli
lang: Icelandic
word: akademía
lang: Indonesian
word: akademi
lang: Irish
word: acadamh
lang: Italian
word: accademia
lang: Japanese
word: 専門学校
roman: senmon gakkō
lang: Japanese
word: 学院
roman: gakuin
lang: Japanese
word: アカデミー
roman: akademī
lang: Kalmyk
word: академ
roman: akadem
lang: Kazakh
word: академия
roman: akademiä
lang: Khmer
word: បណ្ឌិត្យសភា
roman: bɑndɨt saʼphiə
lang: Korean
word: 학원
roman: hagwon
lang: Korean
word: 아카데미
roman: akademi
lang: Kyrgyz
word: академия
roman: akademiya
lang: Lao
word: ວິທະຍາຄານ
roman: wi tha nyā khān
lang: Lao
word: ບັນດິດສະຖານ
roman: ban dit sa thān
lang: Latvian
word: akadēmija
lang: Lithuanian
word: akademija
lang: Macedonian
word: академија
roman: akademija
lang: Malay
word: akademi
lang: Mongolian
word: академи
roman: akademi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: akademi
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: akademi
lang: Pashto
word: اکاډيمي
roman: akāḍemí
lang: Iranian Persian
word: آکادِمی
roman: âkâdemi
lang: Polish
word: akademia
lang: Portuguese
word: academia
lang: Romanian
word: academie
lang: Russian
word: акаде́мия
roman: akadémija
lang: Russian
word: вы́сшее уче́бное заведе́ние
roman: výsšeje učébnoje zavedénije
lang: Russian
word: вуз
roman: vuz
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: acadamaidh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: акадѐмија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: akadèmija
lang: Slovak
word: akadémia
lang: Slovene
word: akademija
lang: Spanish
word: cantera
lang: Swedish
word: akademi
lang: Tagalog
word: talisikan
lang: Tagalog
word: akademya
lang: Tajik
word: академия
roman: akademiya
lang: Thai
word: สำนัก
roman: sǎm-nák
lang: Thai
word: สถาบันการศึกษา
roman: sà-tǎa-ban-gaan-sʉ̀k-sǎa
lang: Thai
word: วิทยาคาร
roman: wít-tá-yaa-kaan
lang: Turkish
word: akademi
lang: Turkmen
word: akademiýa
lang: Ukrainian
word: акаде́мія
roman: akadémija
lang: Urdu
word: اَکَیڈَمی
roman: akaiḍamī
lang: Uyghur
word: ئاكادىمىيە
roman: akadimiye
lang: Uzbek
word: akademiya
lang: Vietnamese
word: học viện
lang: Welsh
word: academi