seminary

Meanings

1. 1
   noun A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
2. 2
   noun A private residential school for girls.
3. 3
   noun A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
4. 4
   noun A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
5. 5
   noun (by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
6. 6
   noun Seminal state or polity.
7. 7
   noun A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
8. 8
   noun An academic seminar.
9. 9
   adjective Of or relating to seed; seminal.