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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SEM'INARY, n. [L. seminarium, from semen, seed; semino, to sow.]
1. A seed-plant; ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; as, to transplant trees from a seminary.
[In this sense, the word is not used in America; being superseded by nusery.]
2. The place or original stock whence anything is brought.
This stratum, being the seminary or promptuary, furnishing matter for the formation of animal or vegetable bodies- Woodward. [Not in use.]
3. Seminal state. [Not in use.]
4. Source of propagation.
5. A place of education; any school, academy, college or univerlity, in which young persons are instructed in the several branches of learning which may qualify them for future employments. [This is the only signification of the word in the United States, at least as far as my knowledge
extends.]
6. A Romish priest educated in a seminary; a seminarist.
SEM'INARY, a. Seminal; belonging to seed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a private place of education for the young
2: a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -naries) Etymology: Middle English, seedbed, nursery, from Latin seminarium, from semin-, semen seed Date: 1542 1. an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated <a seminary of vice and crime> 2. a. an institution of secondary or higher education b. an institution for the training of candidates for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a training-college for priests, rabbis, etc. 2 a place of education or development. Derivatives: seminarist n. Etymology: ME f. L seminarium seed-plot, neut. of seminarius (adj.) (as SEMEN)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Seminary Sem"i*na*ry, a. [L. seminarius.] Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Seminary Sem"i*na*ry, n.; pl. Seminaries. [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. [Obs.] --Mortimer. 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. [Obs.] --Woodward. 3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university. 4. Seminal state. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. 5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.] --Harvey. 6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Seminar Sem`i*nar", n. [G. See Seminary, n.] A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(seminaries) A seminary is a college where priests, ministers, or rabbis are trained. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. School, academy, high-school, institute, gymnasium, college, university, place of education.

Moby Thesaurus

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