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Another word for academy

NOUN

  1. A private institution for secondary or specialized education

  2. A learned society

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Sentence Examples

  • 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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