"seminary" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈsɛmənɛɹi/ [US], /ˈsɛmɪnəɹi/ [UK], /ˈsɛmɪnɹi/ [UK]
Etymology: From Latin sēminārium, from sēmen (“seed”). Compare seminar. In the ground sense, from Middle English semynair, semynary. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*seh₁-|id=sow}}, {{bor|en|la|sēminārium}} Latin sēminārium, {{m|la|sēmen||seed}} sēmen (“seed”), {{m|en|seminar}} seminar, {{inh|en|enm|semynair}} Middle English semynair, {{m|enm|semynary}} semynary Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} seminary (not comparable)
  1. Of or relating to seed; seminal. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-seminary-en-adj-HdN5XDvV

Noun

IPA: /ˈsɛmənɛɹi/ [US], /ˈsɛmɪnəɹi/ [UK], /ˈsɛmɪnɹi/ [UK] Forms: seminaries [plural]
Etymology: From Latin sēminārium, from sēmen (“seed”). Compare seminar. In the ground sense, from Middle English semynair, semynary. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*seh₁-|id=sow}}, {{bor|en|la|sēminārium}} Latin sēminārium, {{m|la|sēmen||seed}} sēmen (“seed”), {{m|en|seminar}} seminar, {{inh|en|enm|semynair}} Middle English semynair, {{m|enm|semynary}} semynary Head templates: {{en-noun}} seminary (plural seminaries)
  1. A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers. Categories (topical): Schools Translations (theological school): семина́рия (seminárija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), seminari [masculine] (Catalan), 神學院 (Chinese Mandarin), 神学院 (shénxuéyuàn) (Chinese Mandarin), seminář [masculine] (Czech), pappisseminaari (Finnish), séminaire [masculine] (French), seminario [masculine] (Galician), Seminar [neuter] (German), Priesterseminar (english: Catholic seminary) [neuter] (German), θεολογική σχολή (theologikí scholí) [feminine] (Greek), szeminárium (Hungarian), papnevelde (Hungarian), papnövelde (Hungarian), papnevelő intézet (Hungarian), hittudományi főiskola (Hungarian), (rabbinical) rabbiképző (Hungarian), seminari (Indonesian), seminario [masculine] (Italian), 神学校 (shingakkō) (alt: しんがっこう) (Japanese), sēminārium [neuter] (Latin), богосло́вија (bogoslóvija) [feminine] (Macedonian), whare whakaako pirihi (Maori), seminarium [neuter] (Polish), seminário [masculine] (Portuguese), семина́рия (seminárija) [feminine] (Russian), semenišče [neuter] (Slovene), seminario [masculine] (Spanish), seminarium [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-seminary-en-noun--2pJm55G Disambiguation of Schools: 1 13 22 19 9 9 2 15 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 24 3 19 13 19 2 14 5 Disambiguation of 'theological school': 67 13 4 3 7 1 3 3
  2. A private residential school for girls. Categories (topical): Schools
    Sense id: en-seminary-en-noun-uW1lw36B Disambiguation of Schools: 1 13 22 19 9 9 2 15 9
  3. (Mormonism) A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education. Tags: Mormonism Categories (topical): Mormonism, Schools
    Sense id: en-seminary-en-noun-xdtm7GYk Disambiguation of Schools: 1 13 22 19 9 9 2 15 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 24 3 19 13 19 2 14 5
  4. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
    Sense id: en-seminary-en-noun-7hLXIBSf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 24 3 19 13 19 2 14 5
  5. (by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-seminary-en-noun-cCbWFcK1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 24 3 19 13 19 2 14 5
  6. (obsolete) Seminal state or polity. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-seminary-en-noun-RTYPja1X
  7. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. Categories (topical): Catholicism, Christianity, Judaism, Schools
    Sense id: en-seminary-en-noun-VWf7Vri9 Disambiguation of Catholicism: 1 6 2 13 3 4 2 68 2 Disambiguation of Christianity: 1 7 2 15 4 5 2 62 2 Disambiguation of Judaism: 1 9 1 16 5 6 3 58 1 Disambiguation of Schools: 1 13 22 19 9 9 2 15 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 24 3 19 13 19 2 14 5
  8. (archaic) An academic seminar. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-seminary-en-noun-tF~OIj~l
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: seminarian, seminarist Related terms: seminar

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          "text": "Seeing then there is indeed a twofold Seminary or stock in nature, from whence are deriv’d the issues of love and hatred distinctly flowing through the whole masse of created things, and that Gods doing ever is to bring the due likenesses and harmonies of his workes together, except when out of two contraries met to their own destruction, he moulds a third existence, and that it is error, or some evil Angel which either blindly or maliciously hath drawn together in two persons ill imbarkt in wedlock the sleeping discords and enmities of nature lull’d on purpose with some false bait, that they may wake to agony and strife, later then prevention could have wisht, if from the bent of just and honest intentions beginning what was begun, and so continuing, all that is equall, all that is fair and possible hath been tri’d, and no accommodation likely to succeed, what folly is it still to stand combating and battering against invincible causes and effects, with evill upon evill, till either the best of our dayes be linger’d out, or ended with some speeding sorrow.",
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