academy

əˈkæd.ə.mi

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#1·5h ago

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.

The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures

Origin: From , from , from , 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.. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·5h ago

A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.

In this year 1633, I became acquainted with Nicholas Fiske, licentiate in physic, who was born in Suffolk, near Framingham* Castle, of very good parentage, who educated him at country schools, until he was fit for the university; but he …

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A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.

Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.

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