"Academy Award" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈkæd.ə.mi əˈwɔːd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /əˈkæd.ə.mi əˈwɔɹd/ [US] Forms: Academy Awards [plural]
Etymology: Official name, named after its awarding organization, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Academy Award}} Academy Award (plural Academy Awards)
  1. An award in any of various fields related to moviemaking, most prominently acting, generally awarded at a televised gala to winners who then speak; commonly used to indicate a person has been lying with great skill. Wikipedia link: American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Translations (award): အော်စကာ (auca.ka) (Burmese), Oscar [masculine] (Dutch), Oscar (Finnish), Oscar-palkinto (Finnish), Oscar-díj (Hungarian), Оскар [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Oskar [Latin] (Serbo-Croatian)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Mrs. Malloy's innocent expression merited an Academy Award.",
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          "text": "'You were a geisha?' she breathed. If her interest was feigned, she deserved an Academy Award.",
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          "text": "Finally Ms. Dorchester announced that she was calling the defendant, Preston Oliver, to the stand. You'd have thought she was going to give him an Academy Award the way she escorted him to the box. he certainly deserved one. He'd sat at the defense table all day smirking or looking bored out of his mind, but the minute he hit the witness stand, he was the portrait of a concerned citizen, just there to do the right thing. You'd never have known he was on trial for a felony.",
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