noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary.
2. 2
   a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) wordnet
3. 3
   A member of a seminar. archaic

Synonyms

All synonyms

seminarianseminarian

Etymology

From seminary + -ist.

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