air force academy
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3.7
- noun
- /ɛr fɔrs əˈkædəmi/
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academia de la fuerza aérea
- The Air Force Academy provides rigorous training for future military officers.
- U.S. Air Force Academy
- Air Force Academy cadets
- United States Air Force Academy
And my classmates were all top graduates at the Air Force Academy.
- And my classmates were all top graduates at the Air Force Academy.
- And this guy went to the Air Force Academy and he was a janitor, and no one knew who the fuck this man was.
Examples
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John dreams of attending the Air Force Academy to become a pilot.
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As you know, there's gonna be an air show at the Air Force Academy this weekend.
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Why do you wanna go to the Air Force Academy, John?
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When they met at the Air Force Academy, it was love at first flight.
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I know a lot about the space program, and I'm going into the Air Force Academy.
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Our bus will then depart for the United States Air Force Academy.
Academic text (1994) -
The Air Force Academy, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is quite similar to many other small colleges.
Academic text (2007) -
I just had the opportunity to visit the Air Force Academy, seeing the cadets march in formation to lunch.
Blog text (10) -
It motivated me to go to the Air Force Academy.
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Travis Burton is a cadet first class (a senior) at the United States Air Force Academy.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
109
3.3
A school for special training in one subject, like art or music
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4.2
A school that trains people to be military officers
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'air force' denotes the military aviation branch and 'academy' is a training institution, so together they clearly denote an institution that trains air force personnel. This follows standard noun-noun compounding and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the parts should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Air force academy comes from putting together air force (the part of the military that uses airplanes) and academy (a school for training officers). When countries made special schools for pilots and future leaders, the name came to mean a school that 'trains' people to be officers in the air force.