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Definition of Seminary

1. Noun. A private place of education for the young.

2. Noun. A theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis.

Definition of Seminary

1. n. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.

2. a. Belonging to seed; seminal.

Definition of Seminary

1. a school for the training of priests, ministers, or rabbis [n -NARIES]

Medical Definition of Seminary

1. Origin: L. Seminarium, fr. Seminarius belonging to seed, fr. Semon, seminis, seed. See Seminal. 1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. "But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds." (Evelyn) 2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. 3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university. 4. Seminal state. 5. A seed bed; a source. 6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. Belonging to seed; seminal. Origin: L. Seminarius. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seminary

seminal granule seminal hillock seminal lake seminal vesical cyst seminal vesicle seminal vesicle seminal vesicles seminar seminarian seminarians

seminaries seminarist seminarists seminars seminary (current term) seminary (current term) seminate seminate seminated seminates

semination seminatural semined seminiferous seminiferous seminiferous epithelium seminiferous tubule seminiferous tubule seminiferous tubules seminiferous tubule dysgenesis

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