seminary

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: sem=i=nar=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

seminary, n. [L. seminarium, fr. seminarius belonging to seed, fr. semon, seminis, seed. See Seminal.].

•  A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.  Mortimer.  [1913 Webster]

  "But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds."  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.  Woodward.  [1913 Webster]
•  A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.  [1913 Webster]
•  Seminal state.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: A seed bed; a source.  Harvey.  [1913 Webster]
•  A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.  Jer. Taylor.  [1913 Webster]

seminary, a. [L. seminarius.].

 Belonging to seed; seminal.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

seminary, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a training-college for priests, rabbis, etc.
2 a place of education or development.

Derivative

seminarist n.

Etymology

ME f. L seminarium seed-plot, neut. of seminarius (adj.) (as SEMEN)

THESAURUS

seminary

Bible institute, Gymnasium, Hebrew school, Latin school, Realgymnasium, Realschule, Sabbath school, Schule, Sunday school, Talmud Torah, academy, church school, college, convent school, denominational school, ecole, educational institution, escuela, grammar school, high, high school, institute, institution, intermediate school, junior high, junior high school, mesivta, middle school, parish school, parochial school, prep school, preparatory school, public school, scholastic institution, school, secondary school, senior high, senior high school, teaching institution, university, yeshiva

ROGET THESAURUS

seminary

School

N school, academy, university, alma mater, college, seminary, Lyceum, institute, institution, palaestra, Gymnasium, class, seminar, day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school, school of art, kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory, pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater, auditorium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune, school book, horn book, text book, grammar, primer, abecedary, rudiments, manual, vade mecum, encyclopedia, cyclopedia, Lindley Murray, Cocker, dictionary, lexicon, professorship, lectureship, readership, fellowship, tutorship, chair, School Board Council of Education, Board of Education, Board of Studies, Prefect of Studies, Textbook Committee, propaganda, scholastic, academic, collegiate, educational, ex cathedra.