how to pronounce academy

/əˈkædəmiː/

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the above transcription of academy is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

academy is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of academy in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… gets she won an academy award for that …”

meaning of academy

Academy is a school or institution of learning.

academy frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word academy occurs in english on average 16.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics academy can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that academy can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;