Synonyms:
academy
Meaning: a secondary school (usually private)
Synonyms:
academy, honorary_society
Meaning: an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature
Usage examples
QUESTION PROPOSED BY THE ACADEMY OF DIJON
Entered U. S. Military Academy, West Point. 1886.
Entered Highland Military Academy, New York. 1882.
It was Eliot who asked the question, and Springer, pausing with one foot on the academy steps, replied:
M. Geoffroy produced several of these nails to the Academy of Sciences, and shewed how nicely the two parts were soldered together.
Eager to get into the action, he resigned his position at the Military Academy, and was transferred to his former regiment, the Tenth Cavalry.
In 1772, a committee, of whom Lavoisier was a member, was appointed by the French Academy, to investigate a report that a stone had fallen from the sky at Luce, France.
Those who saw the exhibition of pictures in the Royal Academy in 1844 will recollect a large, interesting, and beautiful picture by Sir Edwin Landseer of a pack of otter-hounds.
Ellen Terry's acting, the Royal Academy Exhibition, private theatricals, and twenty things besides, but they all seemed unsuitable subjects to start conversation with in this case.
For Phil had long entertained the ambition of becoming the first pitcher on the academy nine, and this year he had been fully confident until the present hour that the goal he sought was his beyond dispute.