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

This week brought me from Belgian Gothic seminaries to Victorian mansions, with a few aggressively average $4,700 apartments sprinkled among them to keep us grounded. — Nora Deligter, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2026

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