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Academy : (noun)
1: a secondary school (usually private)
2: an institution for the advancement of art or science or
literature [syn: honorary society]
3: a school for special training
4: a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Academy : \A*cad"e*my\, n.; pl. Academies. [F. acad['e]mie, L.
academia. Cf. Academe.]
1. 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.
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 (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size,
in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Academy, SD
Zip code(s): 57369
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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