ACAD'EMY, n. [L. academia.] Originally, it is said, a garden, grove, or villa, near Athens, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences. 1. A school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a university or college, and a common school; also a school for teaching a particular art, or particular sciences, as a military academy.2. A house in which the students or members of an academy meet; a place of education.3. A society of men united for the promotion of arts and sciences in general, or of some particular art. |
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