Synonyms of seminaries

seminaries

noun

plural of seminary

1

as in schools

a place or establishment for teaching and learning

a seminary exclusively for women

Synonyms & Similar Words

• schools
• academies
• academes
• kindergartens
• public schools
• preparatory schools
• secondary schools
• high schools
• boarding schools
• prep schools
• elementary schools
• primary schools
• common schools
• trade schools
• grammar schools
• junior high schools
• preps
• senior high schools
• charter schools
• middle schools
• madrassas
• yeshivas
• magnet schools
• Sunday schools
• training schools
• minischools

2

as in centers

a place or environment that favors the development of something

some claimed that orphanages were seminaries of sin and petty crime, turning out juvenile delinquents by the score

Synonyms & Similar Words

• centers
• nurseries
• hotbeds
• nests
• seedbeds
• meccas
• hothouses
• breeding grounds
• capitals
• bases
• foci
• hubs
• crucibles
• nuclei
• nidi
• hearts
• seats
• headquarters
• cores
• eyes
• cynosures

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of seminaries

Southwestern Seminary continues to be one of the largest and best resourced seminaries among the 280 seminaries accredited by the Association of Theological Schools, Dockery said in his letter. — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2026

The politically powerful ultra-Orthodox parties have won exemptions for their followers to forgo military service and instead study in religious seminaries, but those exemptions are under threat. — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026

Orthodox schools, a figure that does not include haredi Orthodox teenagers studying in yeshivot and seminaries not included in government data. — Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026

Taylor grew up evangelical and got a master’s from Fuller Theological Seminary, at the time one of the country’s most prominent evangelical seminaries. — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026

For a clerical establishment that cared above all about its courts, seminaries, and endowments, this was alarming. — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 5 Mar. 2026

Arafi serves on both the Guardian Council and the Assembly of Experts and has spent years overseeing Iran's influential network of seminaries in Qom. — Imtiaz Tyab, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026

Most of them reside and run seminaries in the holy cities of Qom in Iran and Najaf in Iraq. — Eric Lob, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026

At the heart of the unrest is a long-standing exemption that allows ultra-Orthodox men who study full-time in religious seminaries to avoid military service — a policy that many Israelis view as deeply unfair. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025