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Definition

a school for training ministers, priests, or rabbis

She plans to attend Fuller Theological Seminary.

seminary = a school for training ministers (though in other contexts, the word could refer to a school for teaching priests, or rabbis)

Princeton Theological Seminary has the largest theological library in the United States.
And when Corrine was old enough, she sent her to Spelman Seminary where Aunt Theodosia had gone.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

seminary = a school for training ministers

A preacher from the Seminary began a low, insistent, theological argument with a young lieutenant,
Michael Shaara -- The Killer Angels

seminary = a school for training ministers

And then, with a serious expression, she asked if I was planning to go to seminary and become a lady preacher or something—to which I just laughed.
Melody Carlson -- Becoming Me
The last thing I wanted to happen to me was to get serious with some seminarian.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
Alan, Jase, and Willie are ordained ministers and attended seminary at White's Ferry Road Church.
Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
"Like going to bed in seminary and waking up at Ole Miss," Richard says, and they both laugh.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
I express myself so as to be understood; I .... am not a seminary rat.
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
Tell a seminarian that he has to hurry and all of a sudden he starts to ignore bystanders in obvious distress.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
So did his teachers at the seminary, who deemed him too playful and impatient with pomp and procedure; they delayed his ordination.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
On Thursday, at two in the afternoon, Jose Arcadio left for the seminary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
He'd studied for the ministry, and while he left because of what he saw as hypocrisy among the seminary students, he was still very religious.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
The Samson Raphael Hirsch Seminary and College was the only yeshiva in the United States that offered a secular college education.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
He was a Liberal and a Mason, just like his brothers, and yet he wanted his son to go to the seminary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
It was a seminary, but there was no obligation to the priesthood.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
"You don't know I quit the seminary?"
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
It was in this office, upstairs in Lebanon Seminary, that she learned the extent of the network of stops on the Underground Railroad.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
Willie was attending seminary school at White's Ferry Road Church and was living with six guys in a small house in town.
Willie & Korie Robertson -- The Duck Commander Family
His father wanted him to be a seminarian, but the First World War broke out and when Hoss was but a stripling of sixteen he joined the army.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

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