'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
Synonyms of 'seminary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- academy,
- Bible institute,
- church school,
- college,
- convent school,
- denominational school,
- ecole,
- educational institution,
- escuela,
- grammar school,
- Gymnasium,
- Hebrew school,
- high,
- high school,
- institute,
- institution,
- intermediate school,
- junior high,
- junior high school,
- Latin school,
- mesivta,
- middle school,
- parish school,
- parochial school,
- prep school,
- preparatory school,
- public school,
- Realgymnasium,
- Realschule,
- Sabbath school,
- scholastic institution,
- school,
- Schule,
- secondary school,
- senior high,
- senior high school,
- Sunday school,
- Talmud Torah,
- teaching institution,
- university,
- yeshiva
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.