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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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Dictionary Results for seminary:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Seminary \Sem"i*na*ry\, n.; pl. Seminaries. [L. seminarium,
   fr. seminarius belonging to seed, fr. semon, seminis, seed.
   See Seminal.]
   1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants
      for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.]
      --Mortimer.
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            But if you draw them [seedling] only for the
            thinning of your seminary, prick them into some
            empty beds.                           --Evelyn.
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   2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is
      brought or produced. [Obs.] --Woodward.
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   3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an
      academy, college, or university.
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   4. Seminal state. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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   5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.] --Harvey.
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   6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a
      seminarist. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Seminary \Sem"i*na*ry\, a. [L. seminarius.]
   Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Seminar \Sem`i*nar"\, n. [G. See Seminary, n.]
   A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an
   instructor, in original research in a particular line of
   study, and in the exposition of the results by theses,
   lectures, etc.; -- formerly called also seminary, now
   seldom used in this sense.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] Seminarian

5. U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

Seminary, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
   Population (2000):    335
   Housing Units (2000): 150
   Land area (2000):     0.949315 sq. miles (2.458715 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.006709 sq. miles (0.017375 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.956024 sq. miles (2.476090 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            66400
   Located within:       Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
   Location:             31.562322 N, 89.496885 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     39479
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Seminary, MS
    Seminary

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