What is "academy"

Academy \A*cad"e*my\, n.; pl. Academies. [F. acad['e]mie, L. academia. Cf. Academe.]

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. A place of training; a school. ``Academies of fanaticism.''
   --Hume.

4. 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.

5. 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.

late 15c., "the classical Academy," from French Académie, from Latin Academia, from Greek Akademeia "grove of Akademos," a legendary Athenian of the Trojan War tales (his name apparently means "of a silent district"), whose estate, six stadia from Athens, was the enclosure where Plato taught his school.\n\nThe A[cademy], the Garden, the Lyceum, the Porch, the Tub, are names used for the five chief schools of Greek philosophy, their founders, adherents, & doctrines: the A., Plato, the Platonists & Platonism; the Garden, Epicurus, the Epicureans, & Epicureanism; the Lyceum, Aristotle, the Aristotelians, & Aristotelianism; the Porch, Zeno, the Stoics, & Stoicism; the Tub, Antisthenes, the Cynics, & Cynicism.

[Fowler]

n. 1 (context classical studies usually capitalized English) The garden where Plato taught. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.)Brown, Lesley, ed. ''The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.'' 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 2 (context classical studies usually capitalized English) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers. (First attested in the mid 16th century.) 3 An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. (First attested in the mid 16th century.) 4 A school or place of training in which some special art is taught. (First attested in the late 16th century.) 5 A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science. (First attested in the early 17th century.) 6 (context obsolete English) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy. (Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 18th century.) 7 (context with ''the'' without reference to any specific academy English) academia. 8 A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative. 9 (context UK education English) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.

1. n. a secondary school (usually private)

2. an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature [syn: honorary society]

3. a school for special training

4. a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education or higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.

The Academy is an English dual-control car built by West of Coventry between 1906 and 1908. The cars had a 14 hp 4-cylinder engine by White and Poppe.

It was mainly sold to The Motor Academy in London, an early driving school who were probably the first to offer dual control but was also available to the general public. The company showed at the 1906 Olympia Show.

Academy schools are state-funded schools in England which are directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local authority control. The terms of the arrangements are set out in individual Academy Funding Agreements.

Most academies are secondary schools. However, some primary schools, as well as some of the remaining first, middle and high schools, are also academies.

Academies are self-governing non-profit charitable trusts and may receive additional support from personal or corporate sponsors, either financially or in kind. They do not have to follow the National Curriculum, but do have to ensure that their curriculum is broad and balanced, and that it includes the core subjects of mathematics and English. They are subject to inspection by Ofsted.

An academy is an institution of secondary education or higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

Academy may also refer to:

Academy is an action/ simulation computer game for the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Amiga It was released in 1987 by CRL. It achieved critical success in the year it was released.

is a 2007 film directed by Gavin Youngs.

Academy is an Australian film for TV made by the Australian Film & TV Academy and Catholic Radio & TV and produced cheap on the Gold Coast.