Definition of seminary

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