Academy vs. Academia — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Academy and Academia
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Definitions
Academy
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.
Academia
The environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship
He spent his working life in academia
Academy
A place of study or training in a special field
A police academy
Academia
The academic community; academe.
Academy
A society or institution of distinguished scholars and artists or scientists that aims to promote and maintain standards in its particular field
The Royal Academy of Arts
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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
A school for special instruction.
Academia
Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.
Academy
A secondary or college-preparatory school, especially a private one.
Academia
The academic world
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Academy
The academic community; academe
"When there's moral leadership from the White House and from the academy, people tend to adjust" (Jesse Jackson).
Academy
Higher education in general. Used with the.
Academy
A society of scholars, scientists, or artists.
Academy
Plato's school for advanced education and the first institutional school of philosophy.
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.
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
