seminary

Meaning

Noun

1. A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
2. A private residential school for girls.
3. (Mormonism) 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. (broadly) 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. (archaic) An academic seminar.

Adj

Of or relating to seed; seminal.

Synonyms

seminar

college

training college

institute

academy

preparatory school

prep school

private school

school

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seed-bed

study

training school

theological school

place of learning

class

institution

nursery

nursery garden

Translations

seminario

seminario

séminaire

seminarie

Seminar

Priesterseminar

seminário

seminari

kweekschool

seminar

θεολογική σχολή

Bildungsanstalt

werkcollege

ilâhiyat fakültesi

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɛmənɛɹi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: semynair

In summary

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

Sentences

That he had attended a seminary until he was sixteen .