Crossword clues for academies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Academy \A*cad"e*my\, n.; pl. Academies. [F. acad['e]mie, L. academia. Cf. Academe.]
A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
A place of training; a school. ``Academies of fanaticism.''
--Hume.A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
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A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of academy English)
Wikipedia
The Shūyuàn , usually known in English as Academies or Academies of Classical Learning, were a type of school in ancient China. Unlike national academy and district schools, shuyuan were usually private establishments built away from cities or towns, providing a quiet environment where scholars could engage in studies and contemplation without restrictions and worldly distractions.
Usage examples of "academies".
The Duplication of the Hexahedron, demonstrated geometrically to all the Universities and all the Academies of Europe.
The Academies were full of young Readers named Primus or Secundus, Tertia or Puella.
The best known on the shores of the Vistula are: the miraculous Cagliostro: Boisson de Quency, grand charlatan, soldier of fortune, decorated with many orders, member of numerous Academies: the Venetian Casanova of Saint-Gall, a true savant, who fought a duel with Count Branicki: the Baron de Poellnitz .
In the empire, children were given Reading responsibilities within the Academies from the day they entered.
But for those who remain in the Academies, the mental union with other Readers far more than suffices for physical touch.
Children were always assigned to Academies far from where their families lived.
Do you want to see other restrictions, the academies broken up, non-Readers interfering with the education of Readers?
The academies never had enough staff because they insisted on that final ability to leave the body before one was safe from being married off, one's sensitivity destroyed through sexuality.
And as for why not all Readers can remain secluded in the academies, where would the next generation of Readers come from?
I'm never going back to an empire that locks Readers up in the academies and out of the senate, an empire that's afraid of us.
Readers are barred from your government, locked up in academies, made the servants of the ungifted.
In the girls' academies, dance is taught as exercise, but the boys learn sword-play.
The academies were necessary, but so would be the liaison position he would hold.
To the kids the pauses spell dignity and integrity and the still-water depth of a guy with nine years in at three different academies, and who has to shave daily.
North American tennis academies, with over 300 students and 64 courts, half of which they'll have already put under warm inflatable TesTar cover as of like Halloween, P.