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SEMINARY
seminary
(noun) a private place of education for the young
seminary
(noun) a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
seminary (plural seminaries)
A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
A private residential school for girls.
(Mormonism) A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
(by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
(obsolete) Seminal state or polity.
A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
(archaic) An academic seminar.
Adjective
seminary (not comparable)
Of or relating to seed; seminal.
Source: Wiktionary
Sem"i*na*ry, n.; pl. Seminaries. Etym: [L. seminarium, fr. seminarius belonging to seed, fr. semon, seminis, seed. See Seminal.]
1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.] Mortimer. But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn.
2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. [Obs.] Woodward.
3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
4. Seminal state. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.] Harvey.
6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Sem"i*na*ry, a. Etym: [L. seminarius.]
Definition: Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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