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seminary
  1. A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
  2. A private residential school for girls.
  3. (Mormonism) A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
  4. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
  5. (by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
  6. (obsolete) Seminal state or polity.
  7. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “I am currently enrolled in a seminary to become a certified yoga instructor.”
      “The research facility provided a seminary for innovation and collaboration among scientists.”
seminar
  1. A class held for advanced studies in which students meet regularly to discuss original research, under the guidance of a professor.
  2. A meeting held for the exchange of useful information by members of a common business community.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The most illuminating part of the seminar was the discussion that followed the speech.”
      “But one might think that it must be a seminar or theory class for those students separately.”
      “The seminar room has wallcharts of poets, artists, historical and scientific discoveries.”
seminarist
  1. (Roman Catholicism) A student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary.
  2. (now rare) A member of a seminar.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The decline in vocations, which began under Pius XII, has not been reversed and there is now one seminarist for every twelve priests.”
      “They arrive at the spot where the hole is and the seminarist steps out of the Range Rover and has a look at it.”
      “Every grocer's boy can reel off a Rollaesque speech, every seminarist has the five hundred rhymes hidden away in the secrecy of a notebook.”
seminarian
  1. Someone who studies at a seminary.
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    1. “As a seminarian, I already had to reckon that I had no will of my own, but all the more so now that I was a friar.”
      “Andrew Leung, also from the Archdiocese of Toronto, is a seminarian as well with the Congregation of Saint Basil.”
      “Louis Weichmann, a former fellow seminarian and a friend of John's, dropped his studies and moved into the boardinghouse.”
seminarists
  1. plural of seminarist
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    1. “He introduced a bill to reduce military service from five years to three but to close the loopholes by which seminarists, students, and the rich could obtain exemption.”
      “There were some Russians who were just as contemptuous, a former officer and two seminarists.”
      “I would not find myself at thirty brigaded with a set of low-hearted priests and seminarists, who have no other weapons than treachery, nor any strategy but lies.”
seminarians
seminaries
  1. plural of seminary
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The proliferation of vocations requires the building of novitiates, seminaries and monasteries.”
      “Unfortunately, there is little longitudinal research concerning psychosocial changes occurring after entrance into seminaries or novitiates.”
      “Many sexually dysfunctional and immature men were admitted into seminaries.”
seminars
  1. plural of seminar
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In addition to working with almost 200 clients in the past two years, Hamill has held hundreds of business seminars and workshops on the subject.”
      “It took me another three seminars to realise that I'd accidentally fallen into a nest of revolutionary socialists.”
      “The facilitators took the stance that the seminars were essentially koha to the students.”
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