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academy
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Definitions ofacademy
1noun
- (usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.
- (usually capitalized) 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.
Example: "the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.; a music academy; a language academy"
- 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.
- (with the, without reference to any specific 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.
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