ACADEMY

ACAD'EMY, noun [Latin academia.] Originally, it is said, a garden, grove, or villa, near Athens, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences.1. A school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a university or college, and a common school; also a school for teaching a particular art, or particular sciences, as a military academy 2. A house in which the students or members of an academy meet; a place of education.3. A society of men united for the promotion of arts and sciences in general, or of some particular art.AC'ALOT, noun [Contracted from acacalotl.]A Mexican fowl, called by some the aquatic crow. It is the ibis, or a fowl that very much resembles it.

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academy. Academy, n. a school of liberal arts and sciences

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A‐cad″e‐my (�), n.; pl. Academies (�). [[F. académie, L. academia. Cf. Academe.]] 1. 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. 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. 3. A place of training; a school. “Academies of fanaticism.” Hume.
4. 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. 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.