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The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: classical-studies, history, human-sciences, sciences
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The disciples of Plato.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: classical-studies, history, human-sciences, sciences
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Platonism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: classical-studies, history, human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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name
A specific society of scholars or artists.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A northern neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
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Usage: uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.
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Usage: uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A settlement in the city of Little River-Academy, Bell County, Texas.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
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noun
A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
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noun
A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
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noun
Academia.
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noun
A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
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noun
A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: education
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noun
The garden where Plato taught.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, usually
Topics: classical-studies, history, human-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: academe
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noun
Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, usually
Topics: classical-studies, history, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: establishment
noun
a school for special training
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: school
Narrower terms: yeshiva, yeshivah, police academy, military academy, naval academy, air force academy, Plato's Academy
noun
a secondary school (usually private)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: secondary school, lyceum, lycee, Gymnasium, middle school
noun
an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: honorary society
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Broader terms: institution, establishment
Narrower terms: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, French Academy, National Academy of Sciences, Royal Academy, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society, Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
History
Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der. Classical Latin acadēmī̆ader. Middle English Achademia English Academy From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a /acadēmī̆a, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), 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. Doublet of academia and Akademeia; compare academe.
Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der. Classical Latin acadēmī̆ader. Middle English Achademia English academy From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a /acadēmī̆a, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), 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. Doublet of academe, academia, and Akademeia.
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