1. academy - Noun
2. Academy - Proper noun
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.
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.
A place of training; a school.
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.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFor my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me. Luise Rainer
I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. Giorgos Seferis
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war. Kurt Vonnegut
Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media. Ben Stein
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. Clint Eastwood
Armenian Proverbs and Sayings, Translated into English by R. Gevorg Bayyan, Academy of St. Lazarus, Venice, 1889. Armenian Proverb