Why Academy

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Why Academy

Definition of the word Academy and why we use Academy:

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academy

noun

a secondary school (usually private)

an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

a school for special training

a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

academy2 [?'k?d?mi] noun

a society to encourage science, art etc

Arabic:

n/a

Chinese (Simplified):

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Chinese (Traditional):

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Czech:

akademie

Danish:

akademi

Dutch:

academie

Estonian:

akadeemia

Finnish:

akatemia

French:

académie

German:

die Akademie (der Wissenschaften)

Greek:

α?αd?µ?α

Hungarian:

akadémia

Icelandic:

heiðurstofnun vísinda— og listamanna

Indonesian:

akademi

Italian:

accademia

Japanese:

n/a

Latvian:

akademija

Lithuanian:

akademija

Norwegian:

akademi

Polish:

akademia

Portuguese (Brazil):

academia

Portuguese (Portugal):

academia

Romanian:

Academie

Russian:

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Slovak:

akadémia

Slovenian:

akademija

Spanish:

academia

Swedish:

samfund, akademi

Turkish:

akademi

an association for the advancement of art, literature, or science:

the Academy,

a	the Platonic school of philosophy or its adherents.

b	academe (def. 3).

[Origin: 1470–80; < L académia < Gk akad meia, equiv. to Akádém(os) Academus + -eia adj. suffix ]

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As you can see Academy is a type of school. Here are the definitions of school which we use.

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school1 /skul/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skool] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun

1	an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.

2	a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction:

3	the activity or process of learning under instruction.

4	a building housing a school.

5	any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.

6	the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc

Art.

a	a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school.

b	the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school.

8	any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.

–adjective

9	of or connected with a school or schools.

–verb (used with object)

to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.

Archaic. to reprimand.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME scole (n.), OE scol < L schola < Gk schol leisure employed in learning ]

—Related forms

school·a·ble, adjective

schoolless, adjective

schoollike, adjective

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school2 /skul/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skool] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun

1	a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.

–verb (used without object)

2	to form into, or go in, a school, as fish.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME schol(e) < D school; c. OE scolu troop; see shoal² ]

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school¹ (skool) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. An institution for instruction in a skill or business: a secretarial school; a karate school.

2. A group of people, especially philosophers, artists, or writers, whose thought, work, or style demonstrates a common origin or influence or unifying belief: the school of Aristotle; the Venetian school of painters.
b. A group of people distinguished by similar manners, customs, or opinions: aristocrats of the old school.

3. A session of instruction: School will start in three weeks. He had to stay after school today.

4. a. A group of people, especially philosophers, artists, or writers, whose thought, work, or style demonstrates a common origin or influence or unifying belief: the school of Aristotle; the Venetian school of painters.
b. A group of people distinguished by similar manners, customs, or opinions: aristocrats of the old school.

tr.v.   schooled, school·ing, schools

1.              To educate in or as if in a school.
2.              To train or discipline: She is well schooled in literature. See Synonyms at teach.

Adj. Of or relating to school or education in schools: school supplies; a school dictionary.

[Middle English scole, from Old English scol, from Latin schola, scola, from Greek skhole; see segh- in Indo-European roots.]

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school (1)

"place of instruction," O.E. scol, from L. schola, from Gk. skhole "school, lecture, discussion," also "leisure, spare time," originally "a holding back, a keeping clear," from skhein "to get" + -ole by analogy with bole "a throw," stole "outfit," etc. The original notion is "leisure," which passed to "otiose discussion," then "place for such." The PIE base is *segh- "to hold, hold in one's power, to have" (see scheme). The L. word was widely borrowed, cf. O.Fr. escole, Fr. école, Sp. escuela, It. scuola, O.H.G. scuola, Ger. Schule, Swed. skola, Gael. sgiol, Welsh ysgol, Rus. shkola. Replaced O.E. larhus "lore house." Meaning "students attending a school" is attested from c.1300; sense of "school building" is first recorded c.1590. Sense of "people united by a general similarity of principles and methods" is from 1612; hence school of thought (1864). The verb is attested from 1573. School of hard knocks "rough experience in life" is recorded from 1912 (in George Ade); to tell tales out of school "betray damaging secrets" is from 1546. Schoolmarm is attested from 1831, U.S. colloquial; used figuratively for "patronizingly and priggishly instructing" from 1887.

verb

educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"

teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate]

swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"

school3 [sku?l] noun

a series of meetings or a place for instruction etc
Example: She runs a sewing school; a driving school