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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a private place of education for the young;

2. a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Seminary \Sem"i*na*ry\, a. [L. seminarius.] Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

seminary n 1: a private place of education for the young 2: a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "seminary": Bible institute, Gymnasium, Hebrew school, Latin school, Realgymnasium, Realschule, Sabbath school, Schule, Sunday school, Talmud Torah, academy, church school, college, convent school, denominational school, ecole, educational institution, escuela, grammar school, high, high school, institute, institution, intermediate school, junior high, junior high school, mesivta, middle school, parish school, parochial school, prep school, preparatory school, public school, scholastic institution, school, secondary school, senior high, senior high school, teaching institution, university, yeshiva
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

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. Headwords: Seminary, MS Seminary