Definitions for seminary

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seminary sem·i·nar·y

Spelling: [sem-uh-ner-ee]

IPA: /ˈsɛm əˌnɛr i/

Seminary is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 451 anagrams from letters in seminary (aeimnrsy).

Definitions for seminary

noun

1. a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
2. a school, especially one of higher grade.
3. a school of secondary or higher level for young women.
4. seminar (def 1).
5. a place of origin and propagation:

Origin of seminary

1400-50; late Middle English: seed plot, nursery Latin sēminārium, equivalent to sēmin- (stem of sēmen) seed, semen + -ārium -ary

Examples for seminary

The Patriarch then sent him to a seminary; he was to become a priest, my son.

If he had known his family tree, his parents could have said, ‘You’re going to seminary.

It was indeed a "seminary of every vice and of every disease."

Probably the after-effects of the seminary still, dear lady.

Zaytuna began as a modest Islamic seminary nestled in the mellow suburbs of Hayward, California, in 1996.

And it was with surprise that he now recalled those years of seminary life.

A former Goldman partner, a minister, and seminary president have an biblically ambitious plan to help the company do just that.

A former Goldman partner, a minister, and seminary president have a biblically ambitious plan to help the company do just that.

He, who was sixteen, was to enter the seminary on the following Tuesday.

Better that I leave the seminary than stay and become a sourpuss.