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SEMINARY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A private place of education for the young
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("seminary" is a kind of...):
private school (a school established and controlled privately and supported by endowment and tuition)
Derivation:
seminarist (a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("seminary" is a kind of...):
religious school (a school run by a religious body)
Derivation:
seminarist (a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary))
