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US
/əˈkædəmi/
]
[ UK /ɐkˈædəmi/ ]
[ UK /ɐkˈædəmi/ ]
NOUN
- an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature
- a secondary school (usually private)
- a school for special training
- a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
How To Use academy In A Sentence
- Plato's Academy was created around 390 B.C. and had remained in existence until the Byzantine emperor Justinian, closed its doors in 529.
- Do you think the Academy is really hip to how great Gosford Park is, or do they just like it's patina of British upper-crust respectability?
- In this way, the Academy's representation of modernist pieces was only part of the battle.
- He wins himself an Academy Award and leaves the public with an eerie image of electrotherapy. Can Magnets Enhance Your Mood?
- Jackson is being honored posthumously with the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award.
- He is a futurist with a track record and enough credibility for the National Academy of Engineering to publish his sunny forecast for solar energy.
- During the year the academy will provide training support for the athletes including the use of biokinetics and a course in special nutrition to enhance the athletes' performances.
- They were twins who had just transferred from a private academy.
- The academy is also helping promising young athletes in other sports. Times, Sunday Times
- Founded in 1660, the Society has three roles, as the UK academy of science, as a learned Society, and as a funding agency.
