academy
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
Noun 4 meanings
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
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”
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”
Academia.
Etymology
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.
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ACADEMY at a glance
ACADEMY has 7 letters and scores 15 points in Scrabble (A 1 + C 3 + A 1 + D 2 + E 1 + M 3 + Y 4) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,548 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with academy
All rhymes- ENEMY10
- BLASPHEMY21
- ALCHEMY17
- ARCHENEMY19
- FRENEMY15
- DEMY10
- POLYSEMY18
- CALYCANTHEMY27
- MONOSEMY15
- PREMY12
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