{
    "term": "academy",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a school or college for special training",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She trained at the Royal Academy of Music."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **police/military academy**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He later studied at the Royal Academy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He specialized in naval history at the Naval Academy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["military", "naval", "police"],
                "verb + academy": ["attend", "be at", "enter"],
                "preposition": ["at an/​the academy"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a type of official organization that aims to encourage and develop art, literature, science, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Royal Academy of Arts"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a secondary school in Scotland",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He went to Ayr Academy."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a private school in the US",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Education"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a school in England that is independent of local authority control",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Education"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈkædəmi/",
                "audio": "ac/academy/academy__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈkædəmi/",
                "audio": "ac/academy/academy__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting the garden where Plato taught): from French académie or Latin academia, from Greek akadēmeia, from Akadēmos, the hero after whom Plato's garden was named."
}