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Academy
ACAD'EMY, n. [L. 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, n. [Contracted from acacalotl.]
A Mexican fowl, called by some the aquatic crow. It is the ibis, or a fowl that very much resembles it.
academy appears in definitions for these words:
Academe Academial Academian Academic Academician Academist Academy Adjunct Institution Member Preceptor Principal Scholar School Seminary Student Trustee
Academe Academial Academian Academic Academician Academist Academy Adjunct Institution Member Preceptor Principal Scholar School Seminary Student Trustee
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