Word Meanings - ACADEMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A garden or grove near Athens , where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head. 2. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university.

Additional info about word: ACADEMY

1. A garden or grove near Athens , where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head. 2. 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. 3. A place of training; a school. "Academies of fanaticism." Hume. 4. 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. 5. 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. Academy figure , a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACADEMY)

• Seminary
• Nursery
• garden
• seed-plot
• academy
• college
• school
• propaganda

Related words: (words related to ACADEMY)

• GARDEN
  German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard 1. A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• SCHOOLSHIP
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
• ACADEMY
  1. A garden or grove near Athens , where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head. 2. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university.
• SCHOOLHOUSE
  A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
• GARDENING
  The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
• SCHOOLROOM
  A room in which pupils are taught.
• GARDENSHIP
  Horticulture.
• PROPAGANDA
  A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions. The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623- 1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world. 2. Hence, any organization
• GARDENER
  One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.
• NURSERY
  1. The act of nursing. "Her kind nursery." Shak. 2. The place where nursing is carried on; as: The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children. A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated
• SCHOOLMAN
  One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and
• COLLEGE
  1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The
• SCHOOLWARD
  Toward school. Chaucer.
• SCHOOLMISTRESS
  A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.
• SCHOOLMATE
  A pupil who attends the same school as another.
• GARDENLESS
  Destitute of a garden. Shelley.
• SCHOOLMA'AM
  A schoolmistress.
• NURSERYMAN
  One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
• SEMINARY
  1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. Mortimer. But if you draw them only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn. 2. Hence, the place or
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• BARBIZON SCHOOL; BARBISON SCHOOL
  A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with