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Abbreviation of academy. [(classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.]
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Abbreviation of academy. [(classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.]
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(Nigeria, slang) Relating to a university or academic studies; educated.
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(historical) The name of the garden in Athens where the academics met.
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(colloquial, derogatory) Representing wrong or harmful views or beliefs that are generally accepted in academia.
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(derogatory) A formal or artificial style of communicating prevalent in institutes of higher education.
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(collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
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(obsolete) A member of an academy, university, or college.
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(usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
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A question only of interest to academic scholars; a question of no practical importance.
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(rare) Belonging to the school of Plato; believing in Plato's philosophy; sceptical .
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Alternative form of academicism [(classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.]
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A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of Arts.
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A membership in a national academy of arts or sciences
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(classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
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Relating to academicism
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Obsolete form of academic. [Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato]
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(obsolete): The philosophy advocated by the Platonic Academy; Platonism, skepticism.
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(obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
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(UK, education) Synonym of multi-academy trust
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Learned society dedicated to sciences.
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(historical) A rigorous training regimen for Spartan men in preparation for army service.
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(India, chiefly compounds) (an) Academy, a specific society of scholars or artists
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An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature.
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(dated) A gymnasium, especially one for light physical exercise by women and children.
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(historical, Ancient Rome) One of a court of about 100 judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the Empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.
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A political division of ancient Rome, meeting in the Centuriate Assembly.
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(teaching) Director of Studies; someone in charge of the academic side of a school including training teachers and deciding course materials.
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An academy dedicated to the perfection of the French language and standards of usage, founded in the 17th century.
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One who attends Harvard University.
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(education) Knowledge and beliefs that are not explicitly taught in school but which pupils acquire in the school environment.
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Abbreviation of Juntine. [Of, pertaining to, occurring in, or typifying any one or more of the editions of texts published by the Giunti family of Renaissance Florentine printers.]
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Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), in which the advanced pupils in a school teach the pupils below them.
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An organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines.
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An association for literary improvement.
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Synonym of merit badge university
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A body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates the activities of research in (nearly always) the sciences and (sometimes) other disciplines.
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(Ancient Greece, historical, education) An Athenian system of education designed to give students a broad cultural background focusing integration into the public life of the city-state with subject matter including gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy
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An establishment devoted to education or study.
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Synonym of university of applied sciences.
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That develops (or may develop) into an academic form
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(now rare and archaic) A scholar, of public or international law.
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(historical) Describing a council convoked by the emperor Justinian II at Constantinople in 692, also known as the Council in Trullo; of or pertaining to this council.
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Characterized by or relating to the Reggio Emilia approach to early education.
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A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
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1697, Daniel Defoe, "Of Academies" in An Essay Upon Projects:
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A school, organized by a church, that provides religious education to children on Sundays.
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A school employing the techniques of Waldorf education.
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