Meaning

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

    Akademie, akademische Einrichtung

    акаде́мияakadémija

    акаде́міяakadémija

    a secondary school (usually private)

  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

    a school for special training

  3. 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

    an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

  4. Academia.

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

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

    Akademie

    акаде́мияakadémija

    акаде́міяakadémija

  7. (capitalized, usually)The garden where Plato taught.

  8. (capitalized, usually)Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.

  9. (obsolete)The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.

    a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

Examples

80 sentences
  1. Tom has graduated from the police academy.

  2. I went to the Police Academy.

  3. I went to the Naval Academy.

    deIch war auf der Marineakademie. — Yorwba

  4. I graduated from the Police Academy.

  5. Tom and John roomed together at the academy.

    ruВ академии Том с Джоном снимали жильё вместе. — astyng

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
specialized school:
Русский
By meaning 1
specialized school:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
specialized school:
college or university:

Origin

From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēm

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.

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