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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.

College

A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education, or a secondary school.

Academy

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

College

An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both.

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

College

An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field or group of fields.
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Academy

A school for special instruction.

College

A junior or community college.

Academy

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

College

A school offering special instruction in a professional or technical subject
A medical college.

Academy

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

College

The students, faculty, and administration of one of these schools or institutions
New policies adopted by the college.
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Academy

Higher education in general. Used with the.

College

The building, buildings, or grounds where one of these schools or institutions is located
Drove over to the college.

Academy

A society of scholars, scientists, or artists.

College

Chiefly British A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university.

Academy

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

College

An institution for secondary education in France and certain other countries that is not supported by the state.

Academy

Platonism.

College

A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties
A college of surgeons.

Academy

The disciples of Plato.

College

An electoral college.

Academy

The garden where Plato taught.

College

A body of clerics living together on an endowment.

Academy

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

College

(obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.

Academy

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

College

(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
College of Cardinals, College of Surgeons

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

College

(politics) An electoral college.

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.

College

An academic institution.

Academy

(obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.

College

A specialized division of a university.
College of Engineering

Academy

Academia.

College

An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
She's still in college
These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.

Academy

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

College

A university.

Academy

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

College

(Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.

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.

College

A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Balliol College, Oxford
University College, London

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.

College

(UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.

Academy

A place of training; a school.

College

(UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).

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.

College

A high school or secondary school.
Eton College

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.

College

(Australia) A private (non-government) primary or high school.

Academy

A secondary school (usually private)

College

(Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.

Academy

An institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

College

(Singapore) A government high school, short for junior college.

Academy

A school for special training

College

(in Chile) A bilingual school.

Academy

A learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

College

A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.
The college of the cardinals.
Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this.

College

A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

College

A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.

College

Fig.: A community.
Thick as the college of the bees in May.

College

The body of faculty and students of a college

College

An institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university

College

British slang for prison

College

A complex of buildings in which a college is housed

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