Synonyms for academy

Grammar : Noun

Spell : uh-kad-uh-mee

Phonetic Transcription : əˈkæd ə mi

Top 10 synonyms for academy

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Définition of academy

Origin : late 15c., "the classical Academy," from French Académie, from Latin Academia, from Greek Akademeia "grove of Akademos," a legendary Athenian of the Trojan War tales (his name apparently means "of a silent district"), whose estate, six stadia from Athens, was the enclosure where Plato taught his school.
The A[cademy], the Garden, the Lyceum, the Porch, the Tub, are names used for the five chief schools of Greek philosophy, their founders, adherents, & doctrines: the A., Plato, the Platonists & Platonism; the Garden, Epicurus, the Epicureans, & Epicureanism; the Lyceum, Aristotle, the Aristotelians, & Aristotelianism; the Porch, Zeno, the Stoics, & Stoicism; the Tub, Antisthenes, the Cynics, & Cynicism. [Fowler]
Sense broadened 16c. into "any school or training place." Academy awards (1941) so called for their distributor, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

noun school, especially for higher education
noun society or institution interested in learning

Example sentences :

What the paper tells us is that the Academy had not engaged Buononcini for the coming season.
Extract from : « Handel » by Edward J. Dent

It is probable that Handel himself had contributed to the downfall of the Academy.
Extract from : « Handel » by Edward J. Dent

"She'd have to go to an academy first to get fitten for it," said Ma.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

And as he spoke, Cano dashed his statue to pieces on the pavement of the academy.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

I want, sir, if you please, to be admitted to draw at the Academy.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

That practised by the "hanging committee" of the Academy of Design.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, Issue 10, Saturday, June 4, 1870 » by Various

They might have learned more about Mrs. Myers if not the Academy.
Extract from : « St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. » by Various

This action of Congress is a pendant to the Academy of Sciences.
Extract from : « Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 » by Adam Gurowski

He was either newly out of their academy or insultingly confident.
Extract from : « Dogfight--1973 » by Dallas McCord Reynolds

I hadn't gone to the academy, but this was no handicap to my finding the letter.
Extract from : « Arm of the Law » by Harry Harrison

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