academy
/əˈkæd.ə.mi/ noun B1- 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. · the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy
- 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
- Academia.
- A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
- The garden where Plato taught.
- Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
Plural academies
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She’s sixteen and she’s studying for the entrance examination into Queen’s Academy at Charlottetown next year.
A wealthy manufacturer of New Brunswick had died and left part of his fortune to endow a large number of scholarships to be distributed among the various high schools and academies of the Maritime Provinces, according to their respective standings.
Thursday the girls had a drive in the park, and in the evening Miss Barry took them to a concert in the Academy of Music, where a noted prima donna was to sing.
“This morning Miss Stacy came for me and we went to the Academy, calling for Jane and Ruby and Josie on our way.
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