Other forms: academies
An academy is a school for a special subject, or a learned society. A military academy, the Royal Academy, a football academy.
The name goes back to a grove outside Athens where Plato taught, so every academy since is named after a garden. In England it now also means a state school run outside local authority control.
1nounacademyA school for a special subject, or a learned society.
“He was accepted into the police academy after passing the fitness test.”
academy is an institution.
Greek Akademia was a grove outside Athens, named after the hero Akademos, where Plato taught.
la-cla
acadēmī̆a
Middle English
Achademia
English, today
academy
From Middle English Achademia, from la-cla acadēmī̆a. From Middle English Achademia,achademy,Achademye,achadomye, from la-cla Acadēmī̆a//acadēmī̆a, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία, 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. a doublet of academe and academia and Akademeia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA