Definition of ACADEMY

academy

Plural: academies

Noun

  • A place of study or training in a special field.
  • a secondary school (usually private)
  • an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature
  • a school for special training
  • a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
  • The garden where Plato taught.
  • Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
  • An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
  • A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
  • A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
  • The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
  • Academia.
  • A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
  • A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.

Examples

  • He treats every game like he’s at a Scrabble academy.
  • the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology
  • the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

honorary society, learned society

Scrabble Score: 15

academy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
academy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
academy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

academy: valid Words With Friends Word