Academy
[ə'kædəmɪ] or [ə'kædəmi]
Definition
(noun.) a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge.
(noun.) a school for special training.
(noun.) a secondary school (usually private).
(noun.) an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature.
Checker: Sophia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
(n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
(n.) A place of training; a school.
(n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
(n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
Typed by Ethan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. School, seminary, institute, gymnasium, high school, college.
Typist: Toni
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:School, seminary, college, university, educational, establishment, institute
Typist: Waldo
Definition
n. (orig.) the school of Plato: a higher school: a society for the promotion of science or art.—adjs. Academ′ic -al of an academy: theoretical as opposed to practical.—adv. Academ′ically.—n.pl. Academ′icals the articles of dress worn by members of an academy or college.—ns. Academic′ian Acad′emist a member of an academy or specially of the French Academy or the Royal Academy in London.
Checker: Ramona
Unserious Contents or Definition
To visit an academy in your dreams, denotes that you will regret opportunities that you have let pass through sheer idleness and indifference. To think you own, or are an inmate of one, you will find that you are to meet easy defeat of aspirations. You will take on knowledge, but be unable to rightly assimilate and apply it. For a young woman or any person to return to an academy after having finished there, signifies that demands will be made which the dreamer may find himself or her self unable to meet.
Checker: Lucy
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.
Inputed by Annie
Examples
- In 1749 he drew up proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania, which led, two years later, to the esta blishment of the first American Academy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He lived at the house of Benjamin West, and painted, and his portraits were shown at the Royal Academy and at the Society of Artists. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There's the Mincing Lane establishment, and there's your mother's Academy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But, however, I shall so far do justice to this part of the Academy, as to acknowledge that all of them were not so visionary. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Enquiries were sent to the antiquarians of the Academy of Inscriptions in that matter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He entered the Academy at Athens about 367 B.. and st udied there till the death of Plato twenty years later. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She set up an academy, and corresponded with Voltaire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We crossed a walk to the other part of the academy, where, as I have already said, the projectors in speculative learning resided. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Louis XIV set up an academy of sciences in rivalry with the English Royal Society of Charles II and the similar association at Florence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Peace being concluded, and the association business therefore at an end, I turned my thoughts again to the affair of establishing an academy. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This was to be submitted for the prize of fifty guineas and medal offered by the Royal Academy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Miss Jellyby informed me that the academy had been lent, last night, for a concert. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He and his recovered disciples then formed a sort of Academy in the Deer Park at Benares. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The academy largely described. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- As we have already seen, the Royal Society and Milton's Academies owed their origin to the Great Rebellion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The republican character of the private corporations called the schools or academies at Athens was far more stable and independent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The systematic and conclusive character of L everrier's research, submitted to one of the greatest academies of science, carried conviction to th e minds of astronomers. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Susan