Etymology

French académie , Latin academia. Compare academe, academia

Noun

Plural: Academies

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.

   Quotations

   • 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.

Derived expressions

• Academy figure (Painting]]: a drawing usually half life-size , in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.
• The academy (without reference to any specific academy) = academia.

Translations

• Dutch: academie f
• Finnish: akatemia
• French: académie
• German: Akademie
• Interlingua: academia
• Italian: academia
• Japanese: 学会 (gakkai), 学園 (gakuen), 学院 (gakuin)
• Lithuanian: Akademija f (1); akademija f (4, 5)
• Norwegian: akademi
• Persian: فرهنگستان (farhangestan)
• Portuguese: academia f
• Romanian: academie
• Spanish: academia