seminary

IPA: sˈɛmʌnɛri

A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
A private residential school for girls.
(Mormonism) A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
(by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
(obsolete) Seminal state or polity.
A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
(archaic) An academic seminar.

Examples of "seminary" in Sentences

And his teacher in seminary is a huge fan of the show.
GH: My brother-in-law is in seminary school right now.
Sometimes what we read and learn in seminary is something of a mystery to the outside world.
If the word seminary conjures up images of an austere, cloistered, and religious world, you are not far off at all.
Years after first writing about Edythe, I took a writing class while in seminary at the Earlham School of Religion.
I did get a whiff of the ridiculousness Southern fundamentalism in seminary (tons of Southern boys there who wanted to chat with me for periods longer than I was comfortable with when I ran into them), but even then it was moderated by the sophistication (in every sense of the word) of education.
Now that I'm in seminary studying philosophy, I'm reading plenty of nonfiction and not very much fiction, but we're still doing the Fiction Fast, and we're still doing the Lenten Read-a-Thon, though I have selected for this year a book much shorter and lighter than what we've read in years past, mostly because of my limited time for extracurricular reading: