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SEMINARIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary)

Synonyms:

seminarian; seminarist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("seminarist" is a kind of...):

educatee; pupil; student (a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

Derivation:

seminary (a private place of education for the young)

seminary (a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis)

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