ACADEMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does academy mean? 

• ACADEMY (noun)
  The noun ACADEMY has 4 senses:

1. a secondary school (usually private)

2. an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

3. a school for special training

4. a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

  Familiarity information: ACADEMY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACADEMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A secondary school (usually private)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("academy" is a kind of...):

Gymnasium; lycee; lyceum; middle school; secondary school (a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12)

Derivation:

academician (an educator who works at a college or university)

academician (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

academy; honorary society

Hypernyms ("academy" is a kind of...):

establishment; institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)

Meronyms (members of "academy"):

academician (someone elected to honorary membership in an academy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "academy"):

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (an academy that gives annual awards for achievements in motion picture production and performance)

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (an academy that gives annual awards for outstanding achievements in television)

French Academy (an honorary group of French writers and thinkers supported by the French government)

National Academy of Sciences (an honorary American society of scientists created by President Lincoln during the American Civil War)

Royal Academy; Royal Academy of Arts (an honorary academy in London (founded in 1768) intended to cultivate painting and sculpture and architecture in Britain)

Royal Society; Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge (an honorary English society (formalized in 1660 and given a royal charter by Charles II in 1662) through which the British government has supported science)

Derivation:

academic (associated with academia or an academy)

academician (an educator who works at a college or university)

academician (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)

academician (someone elected to honorary membership in an academy)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A school for special training

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("academy" is a kind of...):

school (an educational institution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "academy"):

yeshiva; yeshivah (an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud))

police academy (an academy for training police officers)

military academy (an academy for training military officers)

naval academy (an academy for training naval officers)

air force academy (an academy for training air force officers)

Plato's Academy (a school established by Plato in ancient Athens)

Derivation:

academician (an educator who works at a college or university)

academician (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("academy" is a kind of...):

establishment (a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence)

Derivation:

academician (an educator who works at a college or university)

academician (a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation)

academician (someone elected to honorary membership in an academy)

 Context examples 

We crossed a walk to the other part of the academy, where, as I have already said, the projectors in speculative learning resided.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The three-day event, jointly sponsored by the pontifical academy of science and pontifical academy of social sciences, aims to find a solution to save the planet’s diversity.

(Nearly Half the Planet's Species Could Be Wiped Out by the End of This Century, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Since their discovery, according to the academy, over four thousand other exoplanets have been discovered.

(Swedish academy announces 2019 Nobel Prize winners in physics, Wikinews)

The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many days to the academy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His lordship added, “That he would not, by any further particulars, prevent the pleasure I should certainly take in viewing the grand academy, whither he was resolved I should go.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This academy is not an entire single building, but a continuation of several houses on both sides of a street, which growing waste, was purchased and applied to that use.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In a few days we came back to town; and his excellency, considering the bad character he had in the academy, would not go with me himself, but recommended me to a friend of his, to bear me company thither.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

To this end, they procured a royal patent for erecting an academy of projectors in Lagado; and the humour prevailed so strongly among the people, that there is not a town of any consequence in the kingdom without such an academy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I had hitherto seen only one side of the academy, the other being appropriated to the advancers of speculative learning, of whom I shall say something, when I have mentioned one illustrious person more, who is called among them the universal artist.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)