academy
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/əˈkæd.ə.mi/]
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1. academy (noun) — sense 1
Definition: An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
Example: The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures
2. academy (noun) — sense 2
Definition: A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
Example: the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy
3. academy (noun) — sense 3
Definition: A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
Example: the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology
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