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academy

/əˈkædəmi/

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The second syllable is strongest.

The opening and the vowel after d are relaxed. Make the short a sound in the second syllable stand out, then finish with a light ee vowel.

4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2

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What does academy mean?

noun

  1. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
  2. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
  3. A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
More meanings (13)

noun

  1. Academia.
  2. A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
  3. A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
  4. The garden where Plato taught.
  5. Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
  6. (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.

proper noun

  1. The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.
  2. The disciples of Plato.
  3. Platonism.
  4. A specific society of scholars or artists.
  5. A northern neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
  6. An unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.
  7. A settlement in the city of Little River-Academy, Bell County, Texas.
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IPA pronunciation

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By and by ladies would be going home from the Academy exhibition, and then there would be a chance of a job.
George MacDonaldAt the Back of the North WindProject Gutenberg ebook #225
“Give me time,” said he to his father, “and I will yet produce works that the Academy will be proud to recognise.”
Samuel SmilesSelf Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and PerseveranceProject Gutenberg ebook #935
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I came to West Point, notwithstanding I had heard so much about the Academy well fit to dishearten and keep one away.
Henry Ossian FlipperHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyProject Gutenberg ebook #2448
Peace being concluded, and the association business therefore at an end, I turn'd my thoughts again to the affair of establishing an academy.
Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinProject Gutenberg ebook #148
Taken in its most obvious sense, this new question of the Academy is commonplace, and fit at best to exercise a rhetorisian's skill.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444