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Webster 1913 Edition


Academy

A-cad′e-my

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Academies
.
[F.
académie
, L.
academia
. Cf.
Academe
.]
1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
A place of training; a school.
Academies of fanaticism.”
Hume.
4.
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.
5.
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.
Academy figure
(Paint.)
,
a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.

Webster 1828 Edition


Academy

ACAD'EMY

,
Noun.
[L. academia.] Originally, it is said, a garden, grove, or villa, near Athens, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences.
1.
A school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a university or college, and a common school; also a school for teaching a particular art, or particular sciences, as a military academy.
2.
A house in which the students or members of an academy meet; a place of education.
3.
A society of men united for the promotion of arts and sciences in general, or of some particular art.

Definition 2024


Academy

Academy

See also: academy

English

Proper noun

Academy (uncountable)

  1. (classical studies, historical) The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
  2. (classical studies) The disciples of plato. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
  3. (classical studies, philosophy) Platonism. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
  4. A specific society of scholars or artists.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

academy

academy

See also: Academy

English

Noun

academy (plural academies)

  1. (classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
  2. (classical studies, usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
  3. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
    • 1760-5, Tobias Smollett, The history of England from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George II, published 1805, page 449:
      The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures
    • 1776, David Hume, The life of David Hume:
      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".
  4. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught. [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
    the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
    • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 9, in Crime out of Mind:
      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.
  5. A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
    the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
  6. (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 18th century.][1]
  7. (with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.
    • 2016, Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities:
      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.
  8. A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
  9. (Britain, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.