seminary

Signification

Noun

1. A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
2. A private residential school for girls.
3. A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
4. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
5. The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
6. (obsolete) Seminal state or polity.
7. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
8. An academic seminar.

Adj

Of or relating to seed; seminal.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsɛmənɛɹi/

Étymologie

From Latin sēminārium, from sēmen (“seed”). Compare seminar. In the ground sense, from Middle English semynair, semynary.

Phrases

That he had attended a seminary until he was sixteen .

Qu'il avait assisté à un séminaire jusqu'à l'âge de seize ans.