academy
/əˈkæd.ə.mi/ sustantivo B1En español: academia, cantera
- 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.
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.
“When we reached the Academy there were scores of students there from all over the Island.
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