Seminary

Origin

From Latin sēminārium, from sēmen ("seed"). Compare seminar.

Full definition of seminary

Noun

1. A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
2. A private residential school for girls.
• 1885, Gilbert & Sullivan, Three little maids who, all unwary,Come from a ladies' seminary
3. (Mormonism) A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
4. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
• EvelynBut if you draw them seedlings only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds.
5. (by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
6. (obsolete) Seminal state or polity.
7. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.

Related terms

• seminar

Adjective

1. Of or relating to seed; seminal.