Academy vs Yeshiva - 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.
(Judaism) An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
As nouns the difference between academy and yeshiva
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 yeshiva is (judaism) an academy for the advanced study of jewish texts.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.