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academy

noun
/əˈkæd.ə.mi/US/əˈkad.ə.mɪ/

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 academia and Akademeia; compare academe.

  1. derived from Ἀκαδημία
  2. derived from Acadēmī̆a//acadēmī̆a
  3. inherited from Achademia,achademy,Achademye,achadomye

Definitions

  1. An institution for the study of higher learning

    An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.

    • The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures

  2. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.

    • 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.

  3. A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and…

    A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.

    • the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. Academia.

      • 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.

    2. A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.

    3. A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control

      A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.

    4. The garden where Plato taught.

    5. Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism

      Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.

    6. The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.

    7. The school for advanced education founded by Plato

      The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.

    8. The disciples of Plato.

    9. Platonism.

    10. A specific society of scholars or artists.

    11. A place in the United States

      A place in the United States:

The neighborhood

Derived

academese, academism, academite, academy blue, academy board, academy chain, academy figure, academy leader, Academy of Sciences, academy school, floating academy, interacademy, laughing academy, military academy, multi-academy trust, national academy, POLAC, riding academy, service academy, youth academy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at academy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01academy02literature03written04writing05letters06school07university08academic

A definitional loop anchored at academy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at academy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA