academy
/əˈkæd.ə.mi/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
- Academia.
- A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
- A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
- The garden where Plato taught.
- Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
- The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
- The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.
- The disciples of Plato.
- Platonism.
- A specific society of scholars or artists.
- A place in the United States:
- A northern neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.
- A settlement in the city of Little River-Academy, Bell County, Texas.
Etymology / origin
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.
- Ἀκαδημία(Ancient Greek)→
- Acadēmī̆a//acadēmī̆a(la-cla)→
- Achademia,achademy,Achademye,achadomye(enm)→
- academy (English)
- Relations: inh, der, der
Related words
Achademia,achademy,Achademye,achadomye(enm)Acadēmī̆a//acadēmī̆a(la-cla)Ἀκαδημία(Ancient Greek)একাডেমি(Assamese)একাডেমি(Bengali)အကယ်ဒမီ(Burmese)Akademi(English)akademio(Esperanto)अकादमी(Hindi)akademio(Ido)アカデミー(Japanese)아카데미(Korean)akademi(Malay)അക്കാദമി(Malayalam)akademi(Swahili)akademia(Swahili)اکادمی(Urdu)academi(Welsh)
Descendant words
- একাডেমি(Assamese) (bor)
- একাডেমি(Bengali) (bor)
- အကယ်ဒမီ(Burmese) (bor)
- Akademi(English) (der)
- akademio(Esperanto) (der)
- अकादमी(Hindi) (bor)
- akademio(Ido) (bor)
- アカデミー(Japanese) (bor)
- 아카데미(Korean) (bor)
- akademi(Malay) (bor)
- അക്കാദമി(Malayalam) (bor)
- akademi(Swahili) (bor)
- akademia(Swahili) (bor)
- اکادمی(Urdu) (bor)
- academi(Welsh) (bor)
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