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academy

academy

43 3.5
An organization that supports work in science, art, or literature
  • noun
  • /əˈkædəmi/
translation icon : academia
  • Many famous writers were inducted into the academy for their contributions to the field.
  • academics in the academy
  • culture of the academy
  • the academy needs

Of course, the big news stories last night was the Academy Awards.

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Examples

  • My wife's father was a composer recognized by the academy.

  • This was done by a quantum biologist from Russia's Academy of Sciences.

  • Thank you to the Academy for bringing this up.

  • That film academy sounds amazing.

  • I would just like to take the time to thank the academy, and the fans for the support.

  • Now you can go different places in the Academy and find the same lesson.

  • By the second year, the academy had doubled in size to include approximately three thousand students.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Thus her efforts were at least recognized in the academy, even if the press had been unkind.

    Academic text (2017)
  • And I honor you, members of the academy, for recognizing and supporting high-quality television.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • I was the youngest valedictorian in the history of the academy.

Synonyms

institute
vsacademy
755 3.5

An organization set up to support education, art, or science

is broader, promoting knowledge and arts across many fields
athenaeum
vsacademy
1 9.9

A group of people who meet to read and discuss books or science

is less clublike and more formal public organization for knowledge promotion
honorary society
vsacademy
  • Formal
6.1

A group that gives membership to people for good work in a field like science or art

focuses on promoting knowledge and arts rather than honoring achievement

Compounds

77 2.7

A prize given each year for the best work in movies, like acting or directing

A group of top American scientists who give independent advice on science to the government

A school where people train to become police officers

A school that trains people to be officers in an air force

A school that trains people to be military officers

5 5.7

A London group that promotes painting, sculpture, and architecture

An American group that gives the Oscars every year for work in movies

A school that trains people to be navy officers

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 college that trains people to become officers in the United States Navy

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

A school in ancient Athens where Plato taught philosophy

How Scholarly

university
870 1.0
academy
43 3.5
athenaeum
1 9.9
library
482 1.0
reading room
5 2.6

Surface Forms

academy singular
academies plural

Etymology

Academy comes from the Greek Akademia, the 'garden' where Plato and other thinkers met, and later the word named groups of scholars. So an academy today can be an organization that supports and shares knowledge in science, art, or literature.