seminary
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seminary
- /ˈsɛmənɛɹi/ US
- /ˈsɛmɪnəɹi/ UK
- /ˈsɛmɪnɹi/ UK
Where it comes from
From Latin sēminārium, from sēmen (“seed”). Compare seminar. In the ground sense, from Middle English semynair, semynary.
noun seminaries
- A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
- A private residential school for girls. Three little maids who, all unwary, Come from a ladies' seminary
- A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
- A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation. 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
- The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced. Seeing then there is indeed a twofold Seminary or stock in nature, from whence are deriv’d the issues of love and hatred distinctly flowing through the whole masse of created things, and that Gods doing ever is to bring the due likenesses and harmonies of his workes together, except when out of two
- Seminal state or polity. The hand of God that first created the Earth, hath with variety disposed the principles of all things; wisely contriving them in their proper seminaries
- A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. 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
- An academic seminar.
adjective
- Of or relating to seed; seminal.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: yeshiva, seminar, workshop, retreat, seminario, religious institute, theological college, divinity school, bible college, madrasa, bible school, semicha, kollel, semikah, semikhah, synagogue
Translations
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noun theological school
| Español | seminario |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 神学校 shingakkō |
| 中文 | 神學院 /神学院 shénxuéyuàn |
| Português | seminário |
| Français | séminaire |
| Deutsch | Seminar, Priesterseminar |
| Italiano | seminario |
| Ελληνικά | θεολογική σχολή theologikí scholí |
| Русский | семина́рия seminárija |
| Tiếng Việt | chủng viện |
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