Definition of seminary
seminaries
1 : an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated a seminary of vice and crime
2a : an institution of secondary or higher educationb : an institution for the training of candidates for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate
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Examples of seminary in a Sentence
a seminary exclusively for women
some claimed that orphanages were seminaries of sin and petty crime, turning out juvenile delinquents by the score
Recent Examples of seminary from the Web
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The 74-year-old remembers that his dad took him to Sears in 1967 to buy two new suits, a gesture of kindness when money was tight for him as a seminary student.
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The 74-year-old remembers that his dad took him to Sears in 1967 to buy two new suits, a gesture of kindness when money was tight for him as a seminary student.
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He gets taken in by a group of women and girls ensconced in a rural Southern seminary.
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Enter the young and charismatic Rabbi David (Aviv Alush), a can-do individual who teaches at a local seminary and takes on the congregation's well-being as a personal project.
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Just this past April, for example, five white professors at a Baptist seminary in Texas posted a photo of themselves wearing hoodies, sideways baseball caps and gold chains.
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Barclay finished seminary and went to work as the youth director at a United Methodist church in Austin.
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The 74-year-old remembers that his dad took him to Sears in 1967 to buy two new suits, a gesture of kindness when money was tight for him as a seminary student.
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Barclay finished seminary and went to work as the youth director at a United Methodist church in Austin.
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Origin and Etymology of seminary
Middle English, seedbed, nursery, from Latin seminarium, from semin-, semen seed
SEMINARY Defined for English Language Learners
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: a school for training religious leaders (such as priests, ministers, and rabbis)
SEMINARY Defined for Kids
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1 : a private school at or above the high school level
2 : a school for the training of priests, ministers, or rabbis
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