noun An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
noun A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy
noun A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology
noun Academia.
noun A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
noun A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
noun The garden where Plato taught.
noun Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.