Academy vs. School

Academynoun

The garden where Plato taught.

Academynoun

Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.

Academynoun

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.

Academynoun

A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.

Academynoun

A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.

Academynoun

(obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.

Academynoun

Academia.

Academynoun

A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.

Academynoun

A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.

Academynoun

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Academynoun

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

Academynoun

A place of training; a school.

Academynoun

A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

Academynoun

A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.

Academynoun

a secondary school (usually private)

Academynoun

an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

Academynoun

a school for special training

Academynoun

a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

Academynoun

a place of study or training in a special field

Academynoun

a place of study

Academynoun

(in England) an inner-city school which is funded by the government and sometimes also by a private individual or organization but is not controlled by the local authority.

Academynoun

a secondary school, in the US typically a private one

Academynoun

the teaching school founded by Plato.

Academynoun

a society or institution of distinguished scholars and artists or scientists that aims to promote and maintain standards in its particular field

Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.

Schoolnoun

(collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.

Schoolnoun

A multitude.

Schoolnoun

An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

Schoolnoun

(British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).

Schoolnoun

(UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

Schoolnoun

Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.

Schoolnoun

An art movement, a community of artists.

Schoolnoun

The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.

Schoolnoun

The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.

Schoolnoun

The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.

Schoolnoun

The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.

Schoolnoun

An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.

Schoolverb

(of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.

Schoolverb

(transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.)

Schoolverb

(transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.

Schoolverb

(transitive) To control, or compose, one's expression.

Schoolnoun

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

Schoolnoun

A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.

Schoolnoun

A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.

Schoolnoun

A session of an institution of instruction.

Schoolnoun

One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.

Schoolnoun

The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.

Schoolnoun

An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.

Schoolnoun

The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.

Schoolnoun

The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.

Schoolnoun

Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.

Schoolverb

To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

Schoolverb

To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.

Schoolnoun

an educational institution;

Schoolnoun

a building where young people receive education;

Schoolnoun

the process of being formally educated at a school;

Schoolnoun

an educational institution's faculty and students;

Schoolnoun

the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools is in session;

Schoolnoun

a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers;

Schoolnoun

a large group of fish;

Schoolverb

educate in or as if in a school;

Schoolverb

train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;

Schoolverb

swim in or form a large group of fish;

School

A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or ) under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory.