'Seminary' definitions:

Definition of 'seminary'

From: WordNet
noun
A private place of education for the young
noun
A theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis

Definition of 'Seminary'

From: GCIDE
  • Seminary \Sem"i*na*ry\, n.; pl. Seminaries. [L. seminarium, fr. seminarius belonging to seed, fr. semon, seminis, seed. See Seminal.]
  • 1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.] --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
  • But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. [Obs.] --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Seminal state. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.] --Harvey. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Seminary'

From: GCIDE
  • Seminary \Sem"i*na*ry\, a. [L. seminarius.] Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'seminary'

From: GCIDE
  • Seminar \Sem`i*nar"\, n. [G. See Seminary, n.] A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- formerly called also seminary, now seldom used in this sense. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] Seminarian

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Seminary, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Seminary, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000) :
335
Housing Units (2000) :
150
Land area (2000) :
0.949315 sq. miles (2.458715 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.006709 sq. miles (0.017375 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.956024 sq. miles (2.476090 sq. km)
FIPS code :
66400
Located within :
Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location :
31.562322 N, 89.496885 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
39479
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

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