academy
/əˈkæd.ə.mi/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.57 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
noun
A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
noun
noun
A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
noun
A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
British usage
noun
Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
Example Sentences
- "The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures"
- "In this year 1633, I became acquainted with Nicholas Fiske, licentiate in physic, who was born in Suffolk, near Framingham* Castle, of very good parentage, who educated him at country schools, until he was fit for the university; but he went not to the academy, studying at home both astrology and physic, which he afterwards practised in Colchester; and there was well acquainted with Dr Gilbert, who wrote "De Magnete"."
- "the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy"
- "Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends."
- "the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology"
- "In the academy and outside of it, the privileging of technical expertise above other forms of knowledge is a political gesture, and one that has proved highly effective in neutralizing critique of established power relations."
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der. Classical Latin acadēmī̆ader. Middle English Achademia English academy 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 academe, academia, and Akademeia.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Achademia,achademy,Achademye,achadomye, Acadēmī̆a//acadēmī̆a, Ἀκαδημία
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈkæd.ə.mi/
- British English: /əˈkæd.ə.mi/
Usage
- British usage
- Obsolete
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
academies (plural)
the Academy (canonical)