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seminary
n. religious school where students train for the priesthood or rabbinate; school, institution of learning; seminar, advanced university course intended for a small number of students; educational academy for girls


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Seminary
For the Ecuadorian artist, see Manuel Rendón Seminario. For the institution of Torah study for women, see Midrasha.A seminary or theological college is a specialized and often live-in higher education institution for the purpose of instructing students (seminarians) in philosophytheologyspirituality and the religious life, usually in order to prepare them to become members of the clergy. The English word is taken from the Latin seminarium, translated as seed-bed. In the Occident, the term historically refers to Christian educational institutes for clergy (mostly Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic, as many Protestant denominations preferred another term for their theological colleges).
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seminary
Noun
1. a private place of education for the young
(hypernym) private school
2. a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis
(hypernym) religious school


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Seminary
(n.)
Seminal state.
  
 
(n.)
Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.
  
 
(n.)
Fig.: A seed bed; a source.
  
 
(n.)
A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
  
 
(n.)
A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
  
 
(n.)
A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
  
 
(a.)
Belonging to seed; seminal.
  

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