Seminary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A school, especially a theological school for the training of priests, ministers, or rabbis.
  • n. A school of higher education, especially a private school for girls.
  • n. A place or environment in which something is developed or nurtured.
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  • n. A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
  • n. A private residential school for girls.
  • n. A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
  • adj. Of or relating to seed; seminal.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
  • n. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.
  • n. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
  • n. Seminal state.
  • n. Fig.: A seed bed; a source.
  • n. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
  • adj. Belonging to seed; seminal.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to seed or semen; seminal.
  • Of or pertaining to a seminary (def. II., 3): said of a Roman Catholic priest.
  • Of or pertaining to a seminary (def. II., 5): as, a seminary course.
  • n. A seed-plot; ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery: now only in figurative use.
  • n. Figuratively The original place or original stock whence anything is brought.
  • n. A place of education; any school, academy, college, or university in which persons (especially the young) are instructed in the several branches of learning which may qualify them for their future employments; specifically, a school for the education of men for the priesthood or ministry.
  • n. A seminary priest; a Roman Catholic priest educated in a seminary, especially a foreign one; a seminarist.
  • n. In some universities and institutions, a group of advanced students pursuing some branch by real research, the writing of theses, etc.; also, the course of study engaged in by such students; a seminary course: imitated from German use. Also seminar.
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  • n. a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis
  • n. a private place of education for the young
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    religious school    private school   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    nursery    source    seminarist    seminal    school   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    academy    institute    college    Hartford    monastery   
     
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