Academies

Word ACADEMIES
Character 9
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /əˈkædəmiz/

Definitions and meanings of "Academies"

What do we mean by academies?

(usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.

(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.

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

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

The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.

(with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.

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

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

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The word "academies" in example sentences

As one of the authors of the National Defense University's "Toward a New Space Power Theory", I have been involved in exactly this level of discussion for the past 3 years now and spin offs have NOTHING to do with what the national academies is talking about. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This favors the kids who have spent their youths in academies and other intensive training regimes in warm weather climes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The team had shuttered its Latin American academies to save money. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His claim for example to support City academies is somewhat undermined by quietly dropping support. ❋ Newmania (2007)

Or should he, trusting to his own personal powers of putting together qualities and traits, but more or less neglecting the patterns which the Almighty has put before him in _tout le monde_ -- sometimes also regarding conventional types and "academies" -- either (for this is important) to follow or violently _not_ to follow them -- produce something that owes _its_ personality to himself only? ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

Tories plan primary 'academies' - Education News, Education - The Independent ❋ Unknown (2009)

Monitoring systems, for what Williams refers to as the academies and free schools "experiment", are also weak. ❋ Janet Murray (2010)

The story does make you wonder how much better education in England would be if the Major government had made every school in the country a grant-maintained one or if Blair hadn't spent his first few years in office trying to undoTory education reforms before coming round to the idea of academies but too late to ensure that they were rolled out across the board. ❋ Unknown (2009)

MLS needs to encourage the further development of young domestic players -- be they American or Canadian -- and the academies are the way to do it. ❋ Duane Rollins (2009)

I knew that our soldiers did notstudy in academies. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I knew that our soldiers did not study in academies. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Over burgers and sweetened iced tea, they told me that many of the school districts in the area were draining local public schools of books and equipment to send to the so-called academies, which they viewed as the alternatives for white students. ❋ Hillary Rodham Clinton (2003)

BRADLEY: Well, you know, the point is you might have voted for the underlying bill, but this was an amendment, and the amendment actually gave and protected the tax-exempt status of these segregated academies, that is why the Black Caucus uniformly opposed it. ❋ Unknown (2000)

One of the main purposes expressed in the endowment or creation of the academies was the establishment of courses which should cover a number of subjects having value aside from mere preparation for college, particularly subjects of a modern nature, useful in preparing youths for the changed conditions of society and government and business. ❋ Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1904)

We find, accordingly, belle-lettre academies, that is to say associations for oratory and dramatic representations, even in the small towns. ❋ Unknown (1873)

Michael Gove called academies critics 'enemies of promise' ❋ Unknown (2012)

Europe, parents are to gain wider powers to establish so-called academies, independent but publicly financed schools in which head teachers and their staff would be freed from the stifling oversight of local councils and the central education authorities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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