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Academy vs. Academe — What's the Difference?

Academy vs. Academe — What's the Difference?

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Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.

Academe

The academic environment or community; academia
Bridging the gap between industry and academe
A lifetime in the groves of academe

Academy

A place of study or training in a special field
A police academy

Academe

The academic environment, community, or world.

Academy

A society or institution of distinguished scholars and artists or scientists that aims to promote and maintain standards in its particular field
The Royal Academy of Arts
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Academe

Academic life.

Academy

A school for special instruction.

Academe

A place in which instruction is given to students.

Academy

A secondary or college-preparatory school, especially a private one.

Academe

A scholar, especially a pedant.

Academy

The academic community; academe
"When there's moral leadership from the White House and from the academy, people tend to adjust" (Jesse Jackson).

Academe

(historical) The name of the garden in Athens where the academics met.

Academy

Higher education in general. Used with the.

Academe

(poetic) An academy; a place of learning.

Academy

A society of scholars, scientists, or artists.

Academe

(poetic) The scholarly life, environment, or community.

Academy

Plato's school for advanced education and the first institutional school of philosophy.

Academe

A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant.

Academy

Platonism.

Academe

An academy.

Academy

The disciples of Plato.

Academe

The academic world

Academy

The garden where Plato taught.

Academy

Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.

Academy

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.

Academy

A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
The military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.; a music academy; a language academy

Academy

A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
The French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

Academy

(obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.

Academy

Academia.

Academy

A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.

Academy

A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.

Academy

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Academy

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

Academy

A place of training; a school.

Academy

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.

Academy

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.

Academy

A secondary school (usually private)

Academy

An institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

Academy

A school for special training

Academy

A learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

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