academy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a secondary school, which is usually private

   I'm going to the academy next year.

2. 2
   noun

   An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.

   The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures

3. 3
   noun

   A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.

   the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy

4. 4
   noun

   A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.

   the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology

5. 5
   noun

   Academia.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

7. 7
   noun

   a school for special training

8. 8
   noun

   an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

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 academi…