academy

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a·cad·e·my /əˈkædəmi/ noun (plural academies) [countableC]

1 SSOan official organization which encourages the development of literature, art, science etc 研究院；学会

the American Academy of Arts and Letters

美国艺术和文学学会

2 SECa college where students are taught a particular subject or skill 专科学院

a military academy

军事学院

the Royal Academy of Music

皇家音乐学院

3. SESa school in Scotland for children between 11 and 16 〔苏格兰11到16岁孩子上的〕中等学校

4. a private school in the US 〔美国的〕私立学校

5. previously city academy a type of independent secondary school in England that is run with help and money from private organizations or people. Each school specializes in teaching a particular subject such as science, business, or technology. 〔英国由私人团体或个人捐助的〕公立中学

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academy• Thus there was an academy of practising poets in Toulouse in the early fourteenth century.• He was educated privately at academies in Margate.• the California Ballet Academy• St. Lawrence Academy• Supposedly, this nomination shows that stodgy, old academy voters are hipper, less traditional, younger.• It is the last one he adopted at the academy.• Back at the academy, they eat lunch at 2 and are on the court from 2.30-6.30.• Li and Mao are retired, but their dismissal from the academy bars them from publishing and teaching.• Congress got in the act in the following years, lending the academy $ 255,000 to expand the dairy.

Academyn /əˈkædəmi/ noun [countableC]

na type of secondary school in England that is independent, but which is supported by public money. Each Academy has a private sponsor which can either be an individual person or an organization. Although many subjects are taught in an Academy, each school specializes in certain areas such as science, business, computing, or technology.

Origin academy

(1500-1600) Latin academia, from Greek Akademeia school in Athens at which the ancient Greek thinker Plato taught, named for Akademos a hero in Athenian stories

a·cad·e·my nounAcademyn noun

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