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How to pronounce “academy”
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Pronunciation guide for academy
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of academy with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Life, Animated
And Roger Ross Williams, an amazing director, Academy Award
- Definition summary
- (classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][2]
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How to pronounce academy
Life, Animated
And Roger Ross Williams, an amazing director, Academy Award
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “academy”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][2]
- (classical studies, usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][2]
- An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][2]
- A school or place of training in which some special art is taught. [First attested in the late 16th century.][2]
- A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science. [First attested in the early 17th century.][2]
- (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 18th century.][2]
- (with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.
- A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
- (UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
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