academy
academy
noun
/əˈkædəmi/
(plural academies)
1 a school or college for special training
She trained at the Royal Academy of Music.
a police/military academy
He later studied at the Royal Academy.
He specialized in naval history at the Naval Academy.
He's a cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
Topics Education C1
Collocations
adjective
militarynavalpolice…
verb + academy
attendbe atenter…
preposition
at an/​the academy
2 ​(usually Academy) a type of official organization that aims to encourage and develop art, literature, science, etc.
the Royal Academy of Arts
​3 a secondary school in Scotland
He went to Ayr Academy.
Topics Education C2
4 ​a private school in the US
Topics Education C2
5 ​a school in England that is independent of local authority control
Topics Education C2
Word Origin
late Middle English (denoting the garden where Plato taught): from French académie or Latin academia, from Greek akadēmeia, from Akadēmos, the hero after whom Plato's garden was named.