Academy vs Institute - 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.
An organization founded to promote a cause
An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
The building housing such an institution
(obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
* Milton
(obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
* Burke
* Dryden
(legal, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
To begin or initiate (something); to found.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* 1776 , (Thomas Jefferson), (Declaration of Independence) :
(obsolete) To train, instruct.
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*:Publius was the first that ever instituted the Souldier to manage his armes by dexteritie and skil, and joyned art unto vertue, not for the use of private contentions, but for the wars and Roman peoples quarrels.
* (rfdate) Dr. H. More
To nominate; to appoint.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
(ecclesiastical, legal) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
(obsolete) Established; organized; founded.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
In obsolete terms the difference between academy and institute
is that academy is the knowledge disseminated in an Academy while institute is established; organized; founded.As nouns the difference between academy and institute
is that academy is the garden where Plato taught while institute is an organization founded to promote a cause.As a proper noun Academy
is the school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.As a verb institute is
to begin or initiate (something); to found.As an adjective institute is
established; organized; founded.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
institute
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) institut, from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia institute) (en noun)- I work in a medical research institute .
- water sanctified by Christ's institute
- They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.
- to make the Stoics' institutes thy own
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Derived terms
* educational institute * research institute * academic instituteEtymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Verb
(institut)- He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
- And haply institute / A course of learning and ingenious studies.
- Whenever any from of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government.
- If children were early instituted , knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.
- We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.
- (Blackstone)
Adjective
(-)- They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute , very few to suffice.