adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to seed; seminal.
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Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
seminary
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Pronunciation
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US: /ˈsɛmənɛɹi/
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UK: /ˈsɛmɪnəɹi/
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noun
Meaning 2
A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
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noun
Meaning 3
A private residential school for girls.
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noun
Meaning 4
A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
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Usage: Mormonism
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noun
Meaning 5
A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
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noun
Meaning 6
The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
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Usage: broadly
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noun
Meaning 7
Seminal state or polity.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 8
A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
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noun
Meaning 9
An academic seminar.
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Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 10
a private place of education for the young
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: private school
noun
Meaning 11
a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis
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Broader terms: religious school
History
Etymology
From Latin sēminārium, from sēmen (“seed”). Compare seminar. In the ground sense, from Middle English semynair, semynary.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: семина́рия (seminárija) — theological school
- Catalan: seminari — theological school
- Chinese Mandarin: 神學院 /神学院 (shénxuéyuàn) — theological school
- Czech: seminář — theological school
- Finnish: pappisseminaari — theological school
- French: séminaire — theological school
- Galician: seminario — theological school
- German: Seminar — theological school
- German: Priesterseminar — theological school
- Greek: θεολογική σχολή (theologikí scholí) — theological school
- Hungarian: szeminárium — theological school
- Hungarian: papnevelde — theological school
- Hungarian: papnövelde — theological school
- Hungarian: papnevelő intézet — theological school
- Hungarian: hittudományi főiskola — theological school
- Hungarian: (rabbinical) rabbiképző — theological school
- Indonesian: seminari — theological school
- Italian: seminario — theological school
- Japanese: 神学校 (shingakkō) — theological school
- Latin: sēminārium — theological school
- Macedonian: богосло́вија (bogoslóvija) — theological school
- Māori: whare whakaako pirihi — theological school
- Polish: seminarium — theological school
- Portuguese: seminário — theological school
- Romansh: seminari — theological school
- Russian: семина́рия (seminárija) — theological school
- Slovene: semenišče — theological school
- Spanish: seminario — theological school
- Swedish: seminarium — theological school
- Vietnamese: chủng viện — theological school
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