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An academy is an institution of 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 B.C.E.
• Academy (English school), formerly known as city academy, type of publicly-financed but independently-run school
• The Academy of Irving ISD, magnet school in Irving, TX
• Academy at the Lakes, private school in Florida
• Academy at Dundee Ranch, American behaviour modification facility / residential school in Costa Rica
• Albuquerque Academy, private school in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Academies of Classical Learning in Imperial China
• The Academy, Jamaica, a private school in Kingston, Jamaica.

Organisations

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), American organisation responsible for the Academy Awards (Oscars)

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
• Svenska Akademien, the Swedish Academy founded to further the "purity, strength, and sublimity of the Swedish language.

See List of language regulators for complete list.

Music

• Academy (band), synthpop group of the 1980s
• The Academy Is..., pop punk band
• The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, Tempe, Arizona
• The Academy, previous name for alternative rock band The Academy Is...
• The Academy, previous name for alternative rock band Elliot Minor
• The Academy (music venue), located in Dublin, Ireland.

Business

• Academy Sports and Outdoors, sporting goods store
• Academy Plastic Model Co., Korean scale model manufacturer
• Academy Bus, bus company based in New Jersey
• The Academy Group, Inc, American forensic behavioural science company
• Academy Media, Korean retail company
• Academy Music Group, owner-operator of British music venues (Carling academy)
• The Academy (Hotel), a London hotel located in the district of Bloomsbury

Television

• The Academy (TVB), drama by Television Broadcasts Limited in Hong Kong
• The Academy (TV series), American reality television series documenting the training process for recruits of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
• "The Academy", a fifth season episode of the fantasy television series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
• Academy (Max Headroom), an episode of the Max Headroom TV series

Places

• Academy, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• Academy Bay, Galapagos islands
• Academy Glacier, Antarctica

Other

• Academy (automobile), 1906–1908 British automobile
• Academy (video game), a 1987 ZX Spectrum video game
• The Academy Shopping Centre, a shopping mall in Aberdeen, Scotland

[edit] See also

• Academia, sometimes collectively called the academy
• National Academy, includes links to several such organisations
• Royal Academy (disambiguation) for many institutions of this name
• List of Wikipedia articles starting with "Academy"
• List of Wikipedia articles starting with "The Academy"

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