academy
n.
secondary school; school which offers special instruction; academic association or institution
Academy
academy
Noun
1. a secondary school (usually private)
(hypernym) secondary school, lyceum, lycee, Gymnasium, middle school
2. an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature
(synonym) honorary society
(hypernym) institution, establishment
(hyponym) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
(member-meronym) academician
3. a school for special training
(hypernym) school
(hyponym) yeshiva, yeshivah
4. a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
(hypernym) establishment
Academy
(n.)
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
(n.)
A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
(n.)
A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
(n.)
A place of training; a school.
(n.)
A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Academy
To visit an academy in your dreams, denotes that you will regret opportunities that you have let pass through sheer idleness and indifference.
To think you own, or are an inmate of one, you will find that you are to meet easy defeat of aspirations. You will take on knowledge, but be unable to rightly assimilate and apply it.
For a young woman or any person to return to an academy after having finished there, signifies that demands will be made which the dreamer may find himself or her self unable to meet.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or "What's in a dream": a scientific and practical exposition; By Gustavus Hindman, 1910. For the open domain e-text see:
Guttenberg Project