Word Meanings - SEMINARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. Mortimer. But if you draw them only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn. 2. Hence, the place or

Additional info about word: SEMINARY

1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. Mortimer. But if you draw them only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn. 2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. Woodward. 3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university. 4. Seminal state. Sir T. Browne. 5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source. Harvey. 6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. Jer. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEMINARY)

• Academy
• School
• seminary
• college
• university
• educational
• establishment
• institute

Related words: (words related to SEMINARY)

• UNIVERSITY
  universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. 1. The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
  The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.
• SCHOOLSHIP
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
• ACADEMY
  1. A garden or grove near Athens , where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head. 2. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university.
• SCHOOLHOUSE
  A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
• SCHOOLROOM
  A room in which pupils are taught.
• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• SCHOOLMAN
  One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and
• COLLEGE
  1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The
• SCHOOLWARD
  Toward school. Chaucer.
• SCHOOLMISTRESS
  A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.
• SCHOOLMATE
  A pupil who attends the same school as another.
• INSTITUTER
  An institutor.
• SCHOOLMA'AM
  A schoolmistress.
• SEMINARY
  1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. Mortimer. But if you draw them only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn. 2. Hence, the place or
• SCHOOLERY
  Something taught; precepts; schooling. penser.
• SCHOOLING
  1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching. 2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling. Sir W. Scott. 3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid
• SCHOOLBOOK
  A book used in schools for learning lessons.
• SCHOOLMASTER
  1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school. Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some,
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
• BARBIZON SCHOOL; BARBISON SCHOOL
  A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with
• VESTED SCHOOL
  In Ireland, a national school which has been built by the aid of grants from the board of Commissioners of National Education and is secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and