academy

Meaning

Noun

• The garden where Plato taught.
• Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
• An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
• A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
• A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
• The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
• Academia.
• A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
• A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.

Related

Similar words

• learned society

Origin

• From 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. academia, and Akademeia; compare academe.