Academy vs Campus - What's the difference?
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(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.
(obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
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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.
The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
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To confine to campus as a punishment.
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As nouns the difference between academy and campus
is that academy is the garden where Plato taught while campus is the grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.As a proper noun Academy
is the school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.As a verb campus is
to confine to campus as a punishment.academy
English
Noun
(academies)- the military academy''' at West Point; a riding '''academy'''; the '''Academy of Music.
- the French Academy'''; the American '''Academy''' of Arts and Sciences; '''academies of literature and philology.
Synonyms
* (society of learned people) learned societyDerived terms
* academic * academical * academy figure * Academy of Sciences * laughing academy * national academyReferences
campus
English
Noun
(es)Mr Geek goes to Washington, passage=From their corporate campuses on the west coast, America’s technology entrepreneurs used to ignore faraway Washington, DC—or mention the place only to chastise it for holding back innovation with excessive regulation. They have, at times, invested in the low politics of self-interested lobbying […]. Yet unlike Wall Street