seminary

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A school, especially a theological school for the training of priests, ministers, or rabbis.
2. n. A school of higher education, especially a private school for girls.
3. n. A place or environment in which something is developed or nurtured.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Of or pertaining to seed or semen; seminal.
2. Of or pertaining to a seminary (def. II., 3): said of a Roman Catholic priest.
3. Of or pertaining to a seminary (def. II., 5): as, a seminary course.
4. n. A seed-plot; ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery: now only in figurative use.
5. n. Figuratively The original place or original stock whence anything is brought.
6. n. A place of education; any school, academy, college, or university in which persons (especially the young) are instructed in the several branches of learning which may qualify them for their future employments; specifically, a school for the education of men for the priesthood or ministry.
7. n. A seminary priest; a Roman Catholic priest educated in a seminary, especially a foreign one; a seminarist.
8. n. In some universities and institutions, a group of advanced students pursuing some branch by real research, the writing of theses, etc.; also, the course of study engaged in by such students; a seminary course: imitated from German use. Also seminar.

Wiktionary

1. n. A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
2. n. A private residential school for girls.
3. n. Mormonism A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
4. adj. Of or relating to seed; seminal.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
2. n. obsolete Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.
3. n. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
4. n. obsolete Seminal state.
5. n. obsolete Fig.: A seed bed; a source.
6. n. obsolete A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
7. adj. rare Belonging to seed; seminal.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis
2. n. a private place of education for the young