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academies

/əˈkædəmiz/ · noun

Meaning

  1. (usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.
  2. (usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
  3. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
  4. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
  5. A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
  6. The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.

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