Academy vs. Academia: What's the Difference?
Academy and Academia Definitions
Academy
A school for special instruction.
Academia
The academic community; academe.
Academy
A secondary or college-preparatory school, especially a private one.
Academia
(collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
Academy
The academic community; academe
"When there's moral leadership from the White House and from the academy, people tend to adjust" (Jesse Jackson).
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Academia
Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.
Academy
Higher education in general. Used with the.
Academia
The academic world
Academy
A society of scholars, scientists, or artists.
Academy
Plato's school for advanced education and the first institutional school of philosophy.
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Academy
Platonism.
Academy
The disciples of Plato.
Academy
The garden where Plato taught.
Academy
Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
Academy
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
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Academy
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
Academy
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.
Academy
(obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
Academy
Academia.
Academy
A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
Academy
A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
Academy
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.
Academy
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.
Academy
A place of training; a school.
Academy
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.
Academy
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
A secondary school (usually private)
Academy
An institution for the advancement of art or science or literature
Academy
A school for special training
Academy
A learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
