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academy
What does academy mean?
academy (noun): an institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce academy?
/əˈkædəmi/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does academy come from?
From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a / acadēmī̆a, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to academy
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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an institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school
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money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions
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moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good
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an individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part
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