Another word for academy | Synonyms for academy

Another word for academy

academy Synonyms

academy

n.

A private institution for secondary or specialized education
preparatory school, boarding school, secondary school, military school, military academy, Latin school, day school, seminary, institute, conservatory, finishing school, prep school*.
A learned society
association, institute, league, fraternity, federation, alliance, foundation, council, society, institution, scientific body, circle, salon.

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I am going to put you in the academy there.
He entered the Naval Academy from New York in 1857, but resigned in March 1861.
In 1815 he was commissioned by government to complete the translation of Strabo which had been begun by Laporte-Dutheil, and in March 1816 he was one of those who were admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions by royal ordinance, having previously contributed a Memoire, " On the Metrical System of the Egyptians," which had been crowned.
At the age of eighteen Moratin won the second prize of the Academy for a heroic poem on the conquest of Granada, and two years afterwards he attracted more general attention with his LecciOn poetica, a satire upon the popular poets of the day.
Why do people who win Academy Awards outlive people who are nominated but do not win?

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