Academy Definition
- école
- realgymnasium
- schule
- realschule
- escuela
- university
- seminary
- school
- manege
- society
- institution
- institute
- college
- honorary society
- salon
(classical studies, philosophy) Platonism. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
- the public park near Athens where Plato taught and founded a school for the study of philosophy
- this school
Other Word Forms of Academy
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Academy
- the Academy
Origin of Academy
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From French académie, from Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmia), 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. Compare academe, academia, Akademeia.
From Wiktionary
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French académie, from Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmia), 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. Compare academe, academia, Akademeia.
From Wiktionary
Latin Acadēmīa the school where Plato taught from Greek Akadēmeia
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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