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1. (n.) seminary
a special school that prepares students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
2. seminary
a school, esp. one of higher grade.
3. seminary
a school of secondary or higher level for young women.
4. seminary
a place of origin and propagation:
a seminary of discontent.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME: seed plot, nursery < L sēminārium, der. of sēmin-, s. of sēmen seed, semen)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) seminary
a private place of education for the young
2. (noun) seminary
a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) seminary
belonging to seed; seminal
2. (noun) seminary
a piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat
3. (noun) seminary
hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced
4. (noun) seminary
a place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university
5. (noun) seminary
seminal state
6. (noun) seminary
fig.: A seed bed; a source
7. (noun) seminary
a Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist
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Sense: a training college for Roman Catholic priests.
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 Afrikaans: seminarium |
 Arabic: إكليريكيَّه، كُلِيَّه لاه |
 Bulgarian: семинария |
 Brazilian: seminário |
 Czech: seminář |
 German: das Priesterseminar |
 Danish: præsteseminarium |
 Greek: ιερατική σχολή για καθολι |
 Spanish: seminario |
 Estonian: seminar |
 Farsi: آموزشگاه روحانيون مسيحي؛ح |
 Finnish: pappisseminaari |
 French: séminaire |
 Hebrew: סֶמִינָר |
 Hindi: रोमन कैथोलिक पादरियों का |
 Croatian: sjemenište |
 Hungarian: papnevelde |
 Indonesian: seminari |
 Icelandic: prestaskóli |
 Italian: seminario |
 Japanese: 神学校 |
 Korean: 신학교 |
 Lithuanian: seminarija |
 Latvian: garīgais seminārs |
 Malay: seminari |
 Dutch: seminarium |
 Norwegian: presteseminar |
 Polish: seminarium |
 Persian: آموزشگاه روحانيون مسيحي؛ح |
 Pashto: دار العلوم (مذهبى)، مدرسه |
 Portuguese: seminário |
 Romanian: seminar |
 Russian: семинария |
 Slovak: seminár |
 Slovenian: seminar |
 Serbian: bogoslovija |
 Swedish: [präst]seminarium |
 Thai: โรงเรียนสอนธรรมะ |
 Turkish: Katolik ilâhiyat fakültes |
 Taiwanese: 天主教神學院 |
 Ukrainian: семінарія |
 Urdu: پادریوں کی تربیت گاہ |
 Vietnamese: trường dòng |
 Chinese: 神学院 |
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