Faculty vs Academy - What's the difference?
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The scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
A division of a university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine).
An ability, skill, or power, often plural.
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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.
As nouns the difference between faculty and academy
is that faculty is the scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff while academy is the garden where Plato taught.As a proper noun Academy is
the school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.faculty
English
Noun
(faculties)- I have used the notion of games so far as if it were familiar to most people. I think this is justified as everyone knows how to play some games. Accordingly, games serve admirably as models for the clarification of other, less well-understood, social-psychological phenomena. Yet the ability to follow rules, play games, and construct new games is a faculty not equally shared by all persons. [...]
- He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.
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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.
