Usually means: Institutions for specialized educational instruction.
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  1. academies: Merriam-Webster
  2. academies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. academies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. academies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Academies, academies: Wordnik
  6. academies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. academies: Wiktionary
  8. Academies, academies: Dictionary.com
  9. academies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Academies (China), Academies (Shuyuan), Academies: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Academies: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Academies: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. academies: FreeDictionary.org
  14. academies: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. academies: Legal dictionary

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  1. academies: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Academy)

noun:  (classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.
noun:  (classical studies, usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
noun:  An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
noun:  A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
noun:  A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
noun:  (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
noun:  (with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.
noun:  A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
noun:  (UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
noun:  (classical studies, history) The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.
noun:  (classical studies) The disciples of Plato.
noun:  (classical studies, philosophy) Platonism.
noun:  A specific society of scholars or artists.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A northern neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.
noun:  A settlement in the city of Little River-Academy, Bell County, Texas.
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