academy
academy is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
- noun. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
- noun. A place of training; a school.
- noun. A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
- noun. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
- noun. a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
- noun. a school for special training
- noun. a secondary school (usually private)
- noun. an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature
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