academies
uh-KAD-uh-meez/əˈkædəmiz/
- 1Plural of academy.
The country's leading academies compete fiercely for top researchers.
Two new naval academies were established along the coast.
Note
A regular -y plural: a consonant comes before the final -y, so the y turns to i and takes -es, as in company and companies. The plural belongs to the countable meanings of academy: private schools, schools for a special art such as music or naval training, and learned societies for the arts and sciences. The capitalized Academy of Plato names a single garden and its school, so it normally stays singular.
academies is a form of academy
academy, noun: A school or training place where a particular art or skill is taught. Full entry
- Forms
- academyacademies plural
- Spelling
- academy → academies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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