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Definition of academy noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

academy

noun
 
 
/əˈkædəmi/
 
/əˈkædəmi/
(plural academies)
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  1.  
    a school or college for special training
    • She trained at the Royal Academy of Music.
    • a police/military academy
    Extra Examples
    • He later studied at the Royal Academy.
    • He specialized in naval history at the Naval Academy.
    • He's a cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
    Topics Educationc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • military
    • naval
    • police
    • …
    verb + academy
    • attend
    • be at
    • enter
    • …
    preposition
    • at an/​the academy
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  2. (usually Academy)
     a type of official organization that aims to encourage and develop art, literature, science, etc.
    • the Royal Academy of Arts
  3. a secondary school in Scotland
    • He went to Ayr Academy.
    Topics Educationc2
  4. a private school in the USTopics Educationc2
  5. a school in England that is independent of local authority controlTopics Educationc2
    6. Word Originlate Middle English (denoting the garden where Plato taught): from French académie or Latin academia, from Greek akadēmeia, from Akadēmos, the hero after whom Plato's garden was named.
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