Synonyms for academy
əˈkæd ə miacad·e·my

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. academy

   Synonyms:
   school, seminary, college, university, educational, establishment, institute

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1. academynoun

   a secondary school (usually private)

   Synonyms:
   honorary society

2. academy, honorary societynoun

   an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

   Synonyms:
   honorary society

3. academynoun

   a school for special training

   Synonyms:
   honorary society

4. academynoun

   a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

   Synonyms:
   honorary society

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1. • Establishment
   • School
   • Secondary School

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1. academynoun

   Synonyms:
   school, seminary, institute, gymnasium, high school, college

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1. List of paraphrases for "academy":

   académie, wwa, 'académie, academic, college, school, akademie, akademy, academia, oscar, academies, école, institute, acalan, akademia, oscars, npa, iaa

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1. Stuart London:

   He used a takedown technique he was taught in the academy. He said he never exerted any pressure on the windpipe and never intended to injure Mr. Garner.

2. The VIX:

   Markets have tumbled over the last four days, bringing the recent late-summer comeback into doubt. The VIX is just now catching up to The VIX, and only sort of. Digging in : Thirty is considered a high benchmark for The VIX. Volatility Index floated around 20 and below — which would indicate less volatility — for most of August. Volatility Index hit 25 on Wednesday. In theory, if Volatility Index were to predict future market moves, Volatility Index would have risen that high ahead of last week's selloff, Scott Bauer, CEO of Prosper Trading Academy who worked for 15 years as a market maker at the CBOE, told me.Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management agrees that Volatility Index has limited utility :.

3. Melina Abdullah:

   We have fallen below 9,500 officers. This budget is going to allow us to start hiring, to start putting cops through the academy and back on the streets to get back to the 9,750 officers. So we'll still have, and we will still shoulder, the cutbacks that were placed on us a year ago. we're hopeful that the people will stay engaged and that we can hold our elected officials accountable, and remind them that just because we're moving beyond what people are calling the George Floyd moment that it's not a moment, it's a movement, and we need to have police defunded and invest those dollars into things that actually make communities safe.

4. Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan:

   I saw the pontifical academy as a powerful source to bring science into religion. Simple reason is climate change as we all know has become a moral issue.

5. Will Smith:

   I want to apologize to the Academy. I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees, this is a beautiful moment.