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academy

/uh-kad-uh-mee/US // əˈkæd ə mi //UK // (əˈkædəmɪ) //

学院,学会,学术界,学院派

Related Words

institute研究所,学院,研究院,研究机构secondary school中学,中等学校,小学,高中seminary神学院,神学研究所,神学校,修院boarding school寄宿学校,寄宿制学校prep school预备学校,预科学校,预修学校,预校foundation基金会,基础,基础知识,础federation联合会,联邦,联会,联邦制association协会,协会简介,社团,关联league联赛,联盟,联谊会,联盟的circle循环,圈子,圆圈,圆alliance联盟,联盟的,联盟的工作fraternity兄弟会,博爱,博爱会,友谊会council理事会,委员会,议会,理事preparatory school预备学校,预科学校,预备学院,准备学校finishing school精修学校,终结学校,精修学院,精修班halls of ivy常春藤的殿堂,常春藤的大厅,常春藤大厅,常青藤大厅military school军事学校,军校,军学校,军学

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural a·cad·e·mies.

    • : a secondary or high school, especially a private one: My daughter goes to a very exclusive academy in Chicago.
    • : a school or college for special instruction or training in a subject: a military academy.
    • : an association or institution for the advancement of art, literature, or science: the National Academy of Arts and Letters.
    • : a group of authorities and leaders in a field of scholarship, art, etc., who are often permitted to dictate standards, prescribe methods, and criticize new ideas.
    • : the Academy, the Platonic school of philosophy or its adherents.academe. French Academy. Royal Academy. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounschool, especially for higher education
Synonyms
boarding school寄宿学校,寄宿制学校institute研究所,学院,研究院,研究机构prep school预备学校,预科学校,预修学校,预校secondary school中学,中等学校,小学,高中seminary神学院,神学研究所,神学校,修院brainery脑筋急转弯,脑力劳动,脑洞大开,脑力劳动者finishing school精修学校,终结学校,精修学院,精修班halls of ivy常春藤的殿堂,常春藤的大厅,常春藤大厅,常青藤大厅military school军事学校,军校,军学校,军学preparatory school预备学校,预科学校,预备学院,准备学校
nounsociety or institution interested in learning
Synonyms
association协会,协会简介,社团,关联federation联合会,联邦,联会,联邦制foundation基金会,基础,基础知识,础institute研究所,学院,研究院,研究机构league联赛,联盟,联谊会,联盟的alliance联盟,联盟的,联盟的工作circle循环,圈子,圆圈,圆council理事会,委员会,议会,理事fraternity兄弟会,博爱,博爱会,友谊会

Examples

  • Every time Selin turns to the academy to help her understand language, she finds herself trapped, undermined, rejected.

  • Grandparents create Tik Tok videos, travel the world with and without their grandchildren, two-step at the club, run their own dance academies, and have careers that they’re still growing and thriving in.

  • The academy this week announced new rules to mandate a certain level of diversity in nominated films and at the studios behind them.

  • The memory-intensive naming schemes in modern math may have the result of boxing out the laymen, but we must hope the priests of the academy are not doing it on purpose.

  • Catus argues that private security forces often require more training than the typical police academy does.

  • Andy Serkis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Do you want to be on the wrong side of history, Academy?

  • He spoke of the present-day tragedies and turmoil that struck the city while he and his classmates were in the academy.

  • Ramos just missed being called for one police academy class.

  • Det. Rafael Ramos spent a lifetime trying to become a police officer, entering the academy at age 38.

  • But he made it through the academy and he was soon living his dream.

  • The collection in the Academy I thought much better, but still far enough behind similar galleries in Rome.

  • He was distinguished as an oriental scholar, and died while delivering an oration at the academy of Caen.

  • Ladies and gentlemen, he falteringly said, Signor Diotti left his hotel at seven oclock and was driven to the Academy.

  • This assembly, to which Boileau and Racine afterwards belonged, soon became an academy of itself.

  • The least opulent in the Academy were the first to reject his offers, and to prefer liberty to pensions and honors.

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