Seminary

Quick meaning: Seminary is a noun meaning A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.

Meaning

A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.

More Meanings

1. A private residential school for girls.
2. (Mormonism) A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
3. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
4. (by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
5. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
6. (obsolete) Seminal state or polity.
7. (archaic) An academic seminar.

Example Sentences

Three little maids who, all unwary, Come from a ladies' seminary

the Seminary or Promptuary that furnisheth forth Matter for the Formation and Increment of Animal and Vegetable Bodies

I shall first begin with the Seminary and Nursery, as what is the first Work to be taken care of where you have not the opportunity of buying Trees

I shall not need to instance in the effects which this bull produced; the treason of Watson and Cleark, two English seminaries, are sufficiently known

Word Forms

• seminaries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include yeshiva, seminar, workshop, retreat, madrasa, semicha.

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