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The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
Francis Fukuyama

Meaning of "academy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ACADEMY

Via Latin from Greek akadēmeia name of the grove where Plato taught, named after the legendary hero Akadēmos.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ACADEMY

academy  [əˈkædəmɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACADEMY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Academy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACADEMY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

academy

Academy

An academy is an institution of 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. The School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, of an idealized Academy. In the western world academia is the commonly used term for the collective institutions of higher learning.

Definition of academy in the English dictionary

The first definition of academy in the dictionary is an institution or society for the advancement of literature, art, or science. Other definition of academy is a school for training in a particular skill or profession. Academy is also a secondary school: now used only as part of a name, and often denoting a private school.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACADEMY


agronomy
əˈɡrɒnəmɪ
Akademi
əˈkɑːdəmɪ
alchemy
ˈælkəmɪ
anatomy
əˈnætəmɪ
astronomy
əˈstrɒnəmɪ
autonomy
ɔːˈtɒnəmɪ
Bellamy
ˈbɛləmɪ
Deuteronomy
ˌdjuːtəˈrɒnəmɪ
dichotomy
daɪˈkɒtəmɪ
economy
ɪˈkɒnəmɪ
enemy
ˈɛnəmɪ
epitome
ɪˈpɪtəmɪ
gastronomy
ɡæsˈtrɒnəmɪ
hysterectomy
ˌhɪstəˈrɛktəmɪ
Naomi
ˈneɪəmɪ
ostomy
ˈɒstəmɪ
sesame
ˈsɛsəmɪ
sodomy
ˈsɒdəmɪ
taxonomy
tækˈsɒnəmɪ
vasectomy
væˈsɛktəmɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACADEMY

academe
academia
academic
academic advisor
academic dean
academic dress
academic gown
academic rank
academic year
academical
academicalism
academically
academicals
academician
academicism
academies
academism
academist

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACADEMY

archenemy
blasphemy
calycanthemy
city academy
demy
French Academy
frenemy
military academy
monosemy
police academy
polysemy
Ptolemy
public enemy
Royal Academy
service academy
the Academy
the archenemy

Synonyms and antonyms of academy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ACADEMY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «academy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of academy

Translation of «academy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACADEMY

Find out the translation of academy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of academy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «academy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

学院
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

academia
570 millions of speakers

English

academy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अकादमी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

أَكَادِيـمِيَّة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

академия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

academia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শিক্ষায়তন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

académie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Akademi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Akademie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

学士院
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

학원
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Akademi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

học viện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அகாடமி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अकादमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

akademi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

accademia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

akademia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

академія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

academie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ακαδημία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Akademie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

akademi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

høyskole
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of academy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACADEMY»

The term «academy» is very widely used and occupies the 3.014 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACADEMY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «academy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «academy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about academy

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10 QUOTES WITH «ACADEMY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word academy.
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Brenda Blethyn
The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
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Harold Bloom
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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James Buchan
The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians.
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Kyle Chandler
High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.
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Ray Charles
Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
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Alan Dershowitz
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.
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Madhuri Dixit
I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.
8
Sean Patrick Flanery
For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.
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Francis Fukuyama
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
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David Gill
The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACADEMY»

Discover the use of academy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to academy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Vampire Academy
' - Entertainment WeeklyAlso available in the Vampire Academy series:Vampire Academy (Book 1)Vampire Academy: Frostbite (Book 2) Vampire Academy: Shadow Kiss (Book 3)Vampire Academy: Blood Promise (Book 4)Vampire Academy: Spirit Bound (Book ...
Richelle Mead, 2009
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Skyship Academy: The Pearl Wars
"--JAMES DASHNER, New York Times bestselling author of The Maze Runner A devastated Earth's last hope is found in Pearls: small, mysterious orbs that fall from space and are capable of supplying enough energy to power entire cities.
Professor Nick James, 2011
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Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel
Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose.
Richelle Mead, 2008
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Princess Academy
"-Teenreads.com "An unalloyed joy."-Kirkus Reviews "This is not a fluffy, predictable fairy tale. . . . Instead, Hale weaves an intricate, multilayered story about families, relationships, education, and the place we call home.
Shannon Hale, 2008
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The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican ...
The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work.
Wen-Hsin Yeh, 2000
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Engaging the Six Cultures of the Academy: Revised and ...
"In this book, Bergquist and Pawlak expand the analysis of the interaction of academic cultures on campus and introduce the kinds of creative strategies required to address the complex challenges confronting twenty-first century ...
William H. Bergquist, Kenneth Pawlak, 2008
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Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel
Is Rose’s fate to kill the person she loves most?
Richelle Mead, 2008
8
The Aubin Academy: Revit MEP 2014
Empowered with the information within this book, you will have insight into how to use Revit MEP to create coordinated BIM project models and documentation.
Paul F. Aubin, Darryl McCelland, Martin Schmid, 2013
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Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies
This collection of essays argues the possibility of re-engaging the decolonizing process at the level of knowledge and asserts that this is an ongoing project worthy of being undertaken in a variety of fields.
Carole Boyce Davies, Meredith Gadsby, Charles F. Peterson, 2003
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Pokemon Academy
Ash, Dawn, Brock, and their Pokâemon are attending a week-long Pokâemon academy, where Ash tests his skills in a Pokâemon triathlon.
Scholastic Inc., 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACADEMY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term academy is used in the context of the following news items.
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2006 Academy grad hasn't given up hope for NBA career
While attending the Air Force Academy, Hood helped take the Falcons to the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament twice before ... «AirForceTimes.com, Jul 15»
2
PACE Academy to fight for its charter
PACE Academy will fight for its future Tuesday, July 7 when the public charter school goes before an administrative law judge to contest a state ... «Durham Herald Sun, Jul 15»
3
Getting back on track: Local youth self-enrolls in Youth Challenge …
Early this year he enrolled in the Montana Youth Challenge Academy, and five and a half months later Walter said he's ready to get on track. «Helena Independent Record, Jul 15»
4
Magnolia ISD teachers invited to Mickelson ExxonMobil Teacher …
The Academy was started by professional golfer Phil Mickelson and his wife, Amy. They wanted to create a special professional development ... «Your Houston News, Jul 15»
5
Montclair United and Match Fit Academy host first Match Fit …
With their first joint tournament out of the way, Montclair United Soccer Club and Match Fit Academy have their sights set on bigger and better ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
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Wright teaches Weir academy
Weir Farm Art Academy students will learn to apply the methods ... Sessions for the Weir Farm Art Academy will be held in summer and fall ... «The Ridgefield Press, Jul 15»
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Robots, rockets, aspirin merge for Darlington student at Naval …
Through an elite STEM program at the United States Naval Academy, a rising junior at Darlington spent a week immersed in projects ranging ... «Northwest Georgia News, Jul 15»
8
Academy of Tucson history teacher honored
Academy of Tucson Middle School teacher Richard Moore was named the Outstanding American History Teacher for Arizona by the Arizona ... «Arizona Daily Star, Jul 15»
9
Gymnastics academy opens doors for special needs
Looking in on one Monday afternoon class at the Bismarck Gymnastics Academy, it might seem like chaos to a casual observer, but, for the ... «Bismarck Tribune, Jul 15»
10
14 from Eastern Shore Criminal Justice Academy graduate
John C. Moses, director of criminal justice at Wor-Wic, and Donald L. Rollyson Jr., assistant director of the academy, presided at the ceremony. «Delmarva Daily Times, Jul 15»

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