Seminary

['semɪn(ə)rɪ] or ['sɛmə'nɛri]

Definition

(noun.) a private place of education for the young.

(noun.) a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis.

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Definition

(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.

(a.) Belonging to seed; seminal.

Typed by Anton

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. School, academy, high-school, institute, gymnasium, college, university, place of education, seminary of learning.

Typist: Theodore

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Nursery, garden, seed-plot, academy, college, school, propaganda

ANT:Waste, wilderness

Typist: Millie

Definition

n. the original place whence anything is derived a nursery: a place of education esp. in branches of knowledge to be afterwards applied in practice as theology &c.: a group of advanced students working in some specific subject of study under a teacher—also and more commonly Seminé‹?prime; (the German name): a seminary priest.—n. Sem′inarist a student at a seminary: a R.C. priest educated in a foreign seminary.

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