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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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academy

/əˈkæd.ə.mi/ noun, proper noun

Forms academies the Academy

  1. noun An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
  2. noun A school or place of training in which some special art is taught. “the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy”
  3. noun A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science. “the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology”
  4. noun (with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.
  5. noun A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
  6. noun (UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control; a charter school.
  7. noun (classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.
  8. noun (classical studies, usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
  9. proper noun (classical studies, history) The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.
  10. proper noun (classical studies) The disciples of Plato.
  11. proper noun (classical studies, philosophy) Platonism.
  12. proper noun A specific society of scholars or artists.
  13. proper noun A northern neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.
  15. proper noun A settlement in the city of Little River-Academy, Bell County, Texas.

Synonyms

learned society academe honorary society

Etymology

From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a /acadēmī̆a, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), 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 academe, academia, and Akademeia.

From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a /acadēmī̆a, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), 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.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun 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.

Etymology [F. académie, L. academia. Cf. Academe.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “academy”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details