academy

noun

1. 1

   (usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.

2. 2

   (usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.

3. 3

   An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.

4. 4

   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”

5. 5

   A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.

6. 6

   The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.

7. 7

   (with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.

8. 8

   A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.

9. 9

   A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.