seminary

A school where people study religion and train to become religious leaders.

• He studied at a seminary.
• The seminary trains future priests.
• She entered a seminary to become a rabbi.

Similar words: theological college

Common phrases: attend a seminary, a theological seminary, enter a seminary

A religion class for teenagers aged fourteen to eighteen, taken alongside their usual school lessons.

• We attend seminary before school.
• Her seminary class studies the Bible.
• The seminary teacher welcomed the new teenagers.

Common phrases: attend seminary, a seminary class, a seminary teacher

A private school where girls live while they study.

• Her parents sent her to a seminary.
• The seminary taught girls music and French.
• She attended a private seminary in her youth.

Similar words: girls boarding school

Common phrases: a girls seminary, a private seminary

An area of ground where seeds grow into young plants before being moved elsewhere.

• The gardener prepared a seminary.
• Young trees grew in the seminary.
• They moved the seedlings from the seminary into larger beds.

Similar words: seedbed, nursery

Common phrases: a garden seminary, a seminary of seedlings

Connected with seeds or their production.

• The notes describe seminary growth.
• The botanist examined the plant’s seminary tissue.
• This old text discusses seminary development.

Similar words: seminal

Common phrases: seminary growth, seminary tissue