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What is the difference between academy and academician?

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As nouns the difference between academy and academician

is that academy is (classical studies|usually|capitalized) the garden where plato taught brown, lesley, ed the shorter oxford english dictionary 5th oxford: oxford university press, 2003 while academician is .

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.
  • the military academy''' at West Point; a riding '''academy'''; the '''Academy of Music.
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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

    academician

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (now, chiefly, US) A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.
  • A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of Arts.
  • *1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, page 9:
  • *:‘Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious Academicians , I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.’
  • Synonyms

    (member of university faculty) * academian * academic

    Derived terms

    * academicianship