academies
/əˈkædəmiz/ · noun
Meaning
- (usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.
- (usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
- 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.
- The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
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