Search Details

Word: academy (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • 1811 A brothel (1811 ''Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue'')
  • An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university.
  • A place of training; a school.
  • A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military '''academy''' at West Point; a riding '''academy'''; the '''Academy''' of Music.
  • A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American '''Academy''' of Arts and Sciences; '''academies''' of literature and philology.
  • Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

Source: Wiktionary | Src Info »