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a·cad·e·my  audio  (-kd-m) KEY 

NOUN:
pl. a·cad·e·mies
  1. A school for special instruction.
  2. A secondary or college-preparatory school, especially a private one.
    1. The academic community; academe: "When there's moral leadership from the White House and from the academy, people tend to adjust" (Jesse Jackson).
    2. Higher education in general. Used with the.
    3. A society of scholars, scientists, or artists.
  4. Academy
    1. Plato's school for advanced education and the first institutional school of philosophy.
    2. Platonism.
    3. The disciples of Plato.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin Acadma, the school where Plato taught, from Greek Akadmeia


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