different between academy vs academicianship

English

Etymology

From French académie, from Latin acad?m?a, from Ancient Greek ???????? (Akad?mía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos. Doublet of academia and Akademeia; compare academe.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??kæd.?.mi/

Noun

academy (plural academies)

1. (classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
2. (classical studies, usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
3. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
4. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
5. A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science. [First attested in the early 17th century.]

6. (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 18th century.]
7. (with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.
8. A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
9. (Britain, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.

Synonyms

• (society of learned people): learned society

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kad?m?/

Noun

academy (plural academies)

1. An academy, a school for higher or secondary education.

English

Etymology

academician +? -ship

Noun

academicianship (countable and uncountable, plural academicianships)

1. A membership in a national academy of arts or sciences

Related terms

• academic