academy

Definitions

• (classical studies) The garden where Plato taught.
• (classical studies) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
• 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.
• A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
• (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
• (with the) Academia.
• A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
• (UK) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.