# academy

Pronunciation: say "uh-KAD-uh-mee" /əˈkæd.ə.mi/

## Noun

1. A school or training place where a particular art or skill is taught.
   - Simple: A school that teaches one special skill, such as acting, music, or riding.
   - _He trained at a famous fencing academy in Paris._
   - _The academy offers intensive courses in classical singing._
2. A school, often a private secondary school, or sometimes a college or other institution of higher learning.
   - Simple: A school, often a private high school, or sometimes a college.
   - _The academy admitted only a small number of students each year._
   - _He spent four years at a respected academy before entering public service._
3. A society of learned people joined together to advance the arts, sciences, literature, or some particular field.
   - Simple: A group of skilled or learned people who work together to improve an art or science.
   - _The academy published its members' research in an annual journal._
   - _Several Nobel laureates belong to the royal academy._
4. The world of scholars and institutions engaged in higher education and research, especially as the voice of established opinion in a field.
   - Simple: The world of universities and scholars, and the views it accepts as right.
   - _The academy has long debated how best to teach writing._
   - _Her findings were widely discussed across the academy._
5. In England, a school funded directly by central government and run by an academy trust independently of local authority control. *(UK)*
   - Simple: In England, a school paid for directly by the national government and run by a trust, not the local council.
   - _The school became an academy in 2012, leaving local authority oversight behind._
   - _Several struggling schools were converted into academies under the new policy._
6. The school of philosophy that Plato founded in a grove outside ancient Athens, together with the followers who carried on its teaching.
   - Simple: The school in ancient Athens where Plato taught, and the people who followed his ideas.
   - _Aristotle studied at the Academy under Plato for nearly twenty years._
   - _The Academy lay just beyond the walls of Athens._

## Noun

7. The body of knowledge taught and handed down within an academy. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The learning that was taught and passed on within an academy.

## Origin

From Middle English Achademia, from Classical Latin Acadēmia, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), the name of a grove of trees and gymnasium outside Athens where Plato taught. The place was named after Akademos, the Attic hero said to have once owned the estate.

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