Academy (disambiguation)


Academy (disambiguation)


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

Academy may also refer to:

Education

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

National language regulators

  • Académie française, the French Academy, pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language, officially established in 1635
  • Accademia della Crusca, the Italian institution seeking to maintain the "purity" of the original Italian language
  • 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.

Arts, entertainment, and media

Awards

  • Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, or AACCE), a Spanish organization responsible for the Goya Awards
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), an American organization responsible for the Academy Awards (Oscars)

Films

  • Academy (1996 film), an Australian film
  • Academy (2007 film), a 2007 Japanese film

Music

  • The Academy (EP), an EP by The Academy Is...
  • The Academy (album), an album by Rich Music, Sech and Dalex featuring Justin Quiles, Lenny Tavárez and Feid
    • The Academy: Segunda Misión, its sequel
  • The Academy, previous name for alternative rock band Elliot Minor
  • The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, Tempe, Arizona

Television

  • The Academy (franchise), a Hong Kong television and film police drama franchise
    • The Academy (Hong Kong TV series), the first series in the franchise from 2005
  • The Academy (American TV series), a 2007–2008 American reality television series
  • "Academy", an episode of the Max Headroom TV series
  • "The Academy", a fifth-season episode of the fantasy television series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • 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
  • Academy 1-2-3 (cinema), former art house cinema on Oxford Street, London; closed in 1986
  • Academy Cinema, Bristol, cinema (1914–55) in Bristol, United Kingdom

Businesses

  • Academia.edu, a repository of academic papers and social network for academics
  • Academy Bus, bus company based in New Jersey
  • Academy Music Group, owner-operator of British music venues (Carling academy)
  • Academy Plastic Model Co., Korean scale model manufacturer
  • Academy Sports and Outdoors, sporting goods store
  • O2 Brixton Academy, a music venue in London commonly known as The Academy
  • The Academy (hotel), a London hotel located in the district of Bloomsbury
  • The Academy (music venue), located in Dublin, Ireland
  • The Academy Shopping Centre, Aberdeen

Places

United States

  • Academy, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Academy, South Dakota
  • Academy Lake, a lake in South Dakota
  • Little River-Academy, Texas, which includes the settlement of Academy

Greenland

  • Academy Fjord
  • Academy Glacier (Greenland)
  • Academy Glacier (NW Greenland)

Elsewhere

  • Academy, Alberta Canada
  • Academy Bay, Galapagos islands
  • Academy Bay (Sea of Okhotsk)
  • Academy Glacier, Antarctica
Giuseppe Zanotti Luxury Sneakers

Other uses

  • Academy (automobile), 1906–1908 British automobile
  • The Academy (Heathsville, Virginia), US, a historic house
  • House of Providence (Vancouver, Washington), commonly known as the Academy building
  • National academy
  • Youth academy, a youth development system attached to a sports club

See also

  • Academia (disambiguation)
  • Academic (disambiguation)
  • The Academi, Welsh literary agency
  • Academi, previously known as Xe Services LLC, Blackwater USA, and Blackwater Worldwide; a private military contractor
  • Akademy, an annual contributors and users conference of the KDE community
  • Royal Academy (disambiguation) for many institutions of this name
  • All pages with titles beginning with Academy
  • All pages with titles beginning with The Academy
  • All pages with titles containing Academy



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