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Meaning of 'seminary' (Webster Dictionary)

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

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