seminary

Meanings

Plural: seminaries

Noun

• a private place of education for the young
• a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis
• A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
• A private residential school for girls.
• 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.
• The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
• Seminal state or polity.
• A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
• An academic seminar.

Adj

• Of or relating to seed; seminal.

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