Academy

Meaning

Proper Noun

• The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.
• The disciples of Plato.
• Platonism.
• A specific society of scholars or artists.

Origin

• French académie, from Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία, 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.