academy

noun

1. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.

   “The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures”

   “In this year 1633, I became acquainted with Nicholas Fiske, licentiate in physic, who was born in Suffolk, near Framingham* Castle, of very good parentage, who educated him at country schools, until he was fit for the university; but he went not to the academy, studying at home both astrology and physic, which he afterwards practised in Colchester; and there was well acquainted with Dr Gilbert, who wrote "De Magnete".”

2. 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”

   “Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.”

3. 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”

4. Academia.

   “In the academy and outside of it, the privileging of technical expertise above other forms of knowledge is a political gesture, and one that has proved highly effective in neutralizing critique of established power relations.”

5. A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
6. (UK)A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
7. (capitalized, usually)The garden where Plato taught.
8. (capitalized, usually)Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
9. (obsolete)The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.

name

1. (uncountable)The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.
2. (uncountable)The disciples of Plato.
3. (uncountable)Platonism.
4. (uncountable)A specific society of scholars or artists.
5. (uncountable)A place in the United States:
6. (uncountable)A place in the United States:
7. (uncountable)A place in the United States: