The difference between monastery and seminary
is that "monastery" is building for housing monks or others who have taken religious vows and "seminary" is a theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
monastery
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seminary
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Noun
- Building for housing monks or others who have taken religious vows
Related terms
- monasterial
- monastic
- monasticism
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Noun
- A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
- A private residential school for girls.
- (Mormonism) A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
- A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
- (by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
- (obsolete) Seminal state or polity.
- A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
- (archaic) An academic seminar.
Examples
- Three little maids who, all unwary,
- Come from a ladies’ seminary
Adjective
- Of or relating to seed; seminal.
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