Academy vs Conservatoire - 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.
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.
(music) A music academy, music school, school of music, music conservatory, conservatory of music.
As nouns the difference between academy and conservatoire
is that academy is the garden where Plato taught while conservatoire is a music academy, music school, school of music, music conservatory, conservatory of music.As a proper noun Academy
is the school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.academy
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(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.