The difference between Academy and Learned society
When used as nouns, academy means the garden where plato taught, whereas learned society means an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines.
check bellow for the other definitions of Academy and Learned society
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Academy as a noun (classical studies, usually, capitalized):
The garden where Plato taught.
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Academy as a noun (classical studies, usually, capitalized):
Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
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Academy as a noun:
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
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Academy as a noun:
A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
Examples:
"the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.''; ''a music academy''; ''a language academy"
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Academy as a noun:
A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
Examples:
"the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and [[philology]]."
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Academy as a noun (obsolete):
The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
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Academy as a noun (with ''the'', without reference to any specific academy):
Academia.
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Academy as a noun:
A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
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Academy as a noun (UK, education):
A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
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Learned society as a noun:
An organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines.