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Seminary : (noun)
1: a private place of education for the young
2: a theological school for training ministers or priests or
rabbis
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Seminary : \Sem"i*na*ry\, a. [L. seminarius.]
Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Seminary, MS (town, FIPS 66400)
Location: 31.55920 N, 89.49531 W
Population (1990): 231 (126 housing units)
Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 39479
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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