A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
The garden where Plato taught.
A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
Academia.
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vaulting, school. (A place where one learns to vault.)