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ACADEMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("academy" is a kind of...):
establishment (a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence)
Derivation:
academician (an educator who works at a college or university)
academician (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)
academician (someone elected to honorary membership in an academy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A school for special training
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("academy" is a kind of...):
school (an educational institution)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "academy"):
yeshiva; yeshivah (an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud))
police academy (an academy for training police officers)
military academy (an academy for training military officers)
naval academy (an academy for training naval officers)
air force academy (an academy for training air force officers)
Plato's Academy (a school established by Plato in ancient Athens)
Derivation:
academician (an educator who works at a college or university)
academician (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A secondary school (usually private)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("academy" is a kind of...):
Gymnasium; lycee; lyceum; middle school; secondary school (a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12)
Derivation:
academician (an educator who works at a college or university)
academician (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An institution for the advancement of art or science or literature
Synonyms:
academy; honorary society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("academy" is a kind of...):
establishment; institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)
Meronyms (members of "academy"):
academician (someone elected to honorary membership in an academy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "academy"):
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (an academy that gives annual awards for achievements in motion picture production and performance)
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (an academy that gives annual awards for outstanding achievements in television)
French Academy (an honorary group of French writers and thinkers supported by the French government)
National Academy of Sciences (an honorary American society of scientists created by President Lincoln during the American Civil War)
Royal Academy; Royal Academy of Arts (an honorary academy in London (founded in 1768) intended to cultivate painting and sculpture and architecture in Britain)
Royal Society; Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge (an honorary English society (formalized in 1660 and given a royal charter by Charles II in 1662) through which the British government has supported science)
Derivation:
academic (associated with academia or an academy)
academician (an educator who works at a college or university)
academician (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)
academician (someone elected to honorary membership in an academy)
Context examples:
His employment, from his first coming into the academy, was an operation to reduce human excrement to its original food, by separating the several parts, removing the tincture which it receives from the gall, making the odour exhale, and scumming off the saliva.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Likewise in the account of the academy of projectors, and several passages of my discourse to my master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some material circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
