academia

/akaˈdemja/ · B1 · noun · f

academy

🎓🏫 From Akademos, the hero whose olive grove held Plato's school

Plato taught in a grove named after the hero Akademos, so his school became the Akademeia. Watch out: in everyday Spanish, una academia is usually a private school or cram school, like an academia de idiomas (language school).

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