US Air Force Academy
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- proper noun
- /juː ɛs ɛr fɔrs əˈkædəmi/
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Academia de la Fuerza Aérea de los EE. UU.
- Photo (black & white): Beverly and Stanley Ashbrook, APSA, from Clearwater, Florida, on Tour #2 to the U.S. Air Force Academy
Examples
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Democracy Now! is on the road, broadcasting from Colorado Springs, the home of five major military installations: Fort Carson, Peterson Air Force Base, the U.S. Air Force Academy, Schriever Air Force Base, and the Cheyenne Mountain Air Station. Includes rush transcript.
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Ryan continued to hammer Obama's foreign policy during a visit to Colorado Springs, home of the U.S. Air Force Academy and Fort Carson, and promised not to cut military spending.
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PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): The Cadet Chapel at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
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For example, the vision of the Air Force Academy is to be "the Air Force's premier institution for developing leaders of character" (U.S. Air Force Academy, 2007).
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South of Denver in Littleton, on the grounds of the US Air Force Academy, there sits an actual 8-52 bomber.
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About the same time, Secretary of Defense William Cohen, addressing the graduating class at the U.S. Air Force Academy, sought to minimize recent military breaches of the public trust:
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And Dr. Jim Smith, Director of the Institute for National Security Studies at the U.S. Air Force Academy, recently agreed at a conference on the confluence of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction: "We are rethinking arms control and trying to extend arms control."
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Examples include the print journals Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, which examines the deeper and darker sides of food, and War, Literature and the Arts (WLA), which is based at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
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The cadet chapel is symbolic of how religion is woven into the fabric of life at the US Air Force Academy.
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General Schwartz graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 1973.
Synonyms
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A United States military school in Colorado Springs that trains Air Force officers
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and literally composed from the parts: 'US' (United States) + 'Air Force' (the military aviation service) + 'academy' (a training institution), so the phrase describes a U.S. training institution for Air Force officers. This compositional, locative/name-forming pattern is cross-linguistically common and immediately interpretable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
US Air Force Academy is named for its purpose: an academy, a school, for the Air Force, the part of the U.S. military that flies planes. So it means the school where future Air Force officers are trained.