Academy (disambiguation)

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An academy is an institution of secondary education or higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

Academy may also refer to:

Education

• Platonic Academy, the original Academy founded by the philosopher Plato in ancient Greece circa 385 BCE
• Academy (English school), formerly known as city academy, type of publicly financed but independently run school
• A French regional academy overseeing education
• Scottish schools, in Scotland, a quarter of the secondary schools have the word "academy" in their name
• School academy organizational model

National language regulators

• Accademia della Crusca, the Italian institution seeking to maintain the "purity" of the original Italian language
• Académie française, the French Academy, pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language, officially established in 1635
• Real Academia Española, Spanish Royal Academy, the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language
• Swedish Academy, founded to further the "purity, strength, and sublimity of the Swedish language

See List of language regulators for complete list.

Music

• The Academy (music venue), located in Dublin, Ireland
• The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, Tempe, Arizona
• The Academy, previous name for alternative rock band Elliot Minor
• The Academy (EP), an EP by The Academy Is...

Business

• Academi, previously known as Xe Services LLC, Blackwater USA, and Blackwater Worldwide
• Academia.edu a repository of academic papers and social network for academics
• Academy Sports and Outdoors, sporting goods store
• Academy Plastic Model Co., Korean scale model manufacturer
• Academy Bus, bus company based in New Jersey
• Academy Music Group, owner-operator of British music venues (Carling academy)
• The Academy (Hotel), a London hotel located in the district of Bloomsbury

Film and television

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), an American organization responsible for the Academy Awards (Oscars)
• Academy (2007 film), a 2007 Japanese film
• Academy (1996 film), an Australian film
• The Academy (2005 TV series), a Hong Kong drama series
• The Academy (TV series), an American reality television series
• "The Academy", a fifth-season episode of the fantasy television series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
• "Academy", an episode of the Max Headroom TV series

Places

In the United States

• Academy, St. Louis, Missouri
• Academy, South Dakota
• Academy Lake, a lake in South Dakota

Elsewhere

• Academy Bay, Galapagos islands
• Academy Glacier, Antarctica
• Academy, Alberta Canada

Other uses

• Academy (automobile), 1906–1908 British automobile
• Academy (video game), a 1987 ZX Spectrum video game
• The Academy (periodical), a London periodical, 1869–1902, published as The Academy and Literature, 1902–1916
• House of Providence (Vancouver, Washington), commonly known as the Academy building
• Youth academy, a youth development system attached to a sports club

See also

• Military academy
• National academy
• Royal Academy (disambiguation) for many institutions of this name
• All pages beginning with Academy
• All pages beginning with The Academy
• Akademy, an annual contributors and users conference of the KDE community