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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