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PLATO'S ACADEMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Plato's Academy mean? 

PLATO'S ACADEMY (noun)
  The noun PLATO'S ACADEMY has 1 sense:

1. a school established by Plato in ancient Athensplay

  Familiarity information: PLATO'S ACADEMY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLATO'S ACADEMY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A school established by Plato in ancient Athens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

Plato's Academy continued for several hundred years after Plato died

Hypernyms ("Plato's Academy" is a kind of...):

academy (a school for special training)


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