academy
- noun
- /əˈkædəmi/
- We rounded out our apprenticeship... at the most exclusive dramatics academy.
- a military academy
- an art academy
- a music academy
He actually graduates from New York Film Academy in a week to week.
- He actually graduates from New York Film Academy in a week to week.
- When you went through the Academy, were you treated differently?
- And so I, I decided I would try to get into a fire Academy and and I did.
- And I said to her, oh, Maya, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, that's going to be my greatest legacy.
- But how was your before we start, Kinda what was going through the Academy like for you, Greg?
- Were you test marketing or did you really stumble into what's become Khan Academy?
- I, I wrote AII, auditioned for New York Film Academy, went to London, audition for New York Film Academy.
- She is part of the reason why the Jalen Rose Academy stuck out.
Examples
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He is sending his brother to the military academy in Tokyo.
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We've created an academy to take the best SIM racers in the world and train them to race real race cars.
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Not even the police academy will teach you things like these.
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That military academy is starting to look like a real sweet option to me and your mother about now.
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It's a military academy in Virginia.
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When you went through the Academy, were you treated differently?
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So a prestigious art Academy life at the moment feels perfect.
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She's in first grade at the music academy.
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Since 2009, it has sponsored and coordinated a training academy open to civilian and federal agencies.
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She studies painting at the local academy for the arts.
Synonyms
A school where people learn to make art like painting or sculpture
A school where students train in music and other arts
Compounds
A group of top American scientists who give independent advice on science to the government
An American group that gives the Oscars every year for work in movies
A school at West Point that trains people to be officers in the United States Army
A school that trains people to be officers in the US Air Force at Colorado Springs
An official group of important French writers and scholars who set rules for the French language
A United States military school in Colorado Springs that trains Air Force officers
A US government school in Annapolis, Maryland that trains people to be Navy and Marine Corps officers
A school that trains people to be officers in the United States Army, often called West Point
An American organization that gives the Emmy Awards for the best work in television
An art organisation in London that promotes painting, sculpture and architecture
How Scholarly
- Literature
Surface Forms
Etymology
Academy comes from the Greek Akademia, the 'garden' where Plato gave special lessons, so it long meant a place for expert teaching. That's why today an academy is often a school for one skill, like music, art, or the police.