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Academy vs Academia - What's the difference?

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Academia is a related term of academy.



As nouns the difference between academy and academia

is that academy is the garden where Plato taught while academia is the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.

As a proper noun Academy

is the school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.

academy

English

Noun

(academies)
  • (classical studies, usually, capitalized) The garden where Plato taught. Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • (classical studies, usually, capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
  • An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
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  • A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
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  • 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.
  • (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
  • Academia.
  • A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
  • (UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.

    • Synonyms

    * (society of learned people) learned society

    Derived terms

    * academic * academical * academy figure * Academy of Sciences * laughing academy * national academy

    References

    academia

    English

    Noun

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  • The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
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  • Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.

    • Related terms

    * academe * academy * Akademeia

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