Usually means: Institution for specialized higher education.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word academy:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. academy: Merriam-Webster
  2. academy, the Academy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. academy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. academy, the Academy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. academy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Academy, academy: Wordnik
  7. academy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Academy, academy: Wiktionary
  9. academy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. academy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. academy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Academy, academy, the academy: Dictionary.com
  13. academy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. academy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Academy (England), Academy (English school), Academy (disambiguation), Academy (educational institution), Academy, The Academy (EP), The Academy (Hotel), The Academy (TVB), The Academy (TVB TV series), The Academy (TV series), The Academy (franchise), The Academy (music venue), The Academy (periodical), The academy, .academy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Academy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. academy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. academy: Rhymezone
  19. academy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. academy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. the Academy: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. academy: FreeDictionary.org
  23. academy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. academy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. academy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Academy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  27. academy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  28. academy: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. academy: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. academy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. academy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. academy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Academy, the academy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See academies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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