Definitions
A school or institution for specialized training or study.
Word origin
From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a /acadēmī̆a, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos. Doublet of academe, academia, and Akademeia.
Used in a sentence
“The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures”
“the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy”
“the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“School or learned society”7 letters
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