SEMINARIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seminarist mean? 

• SEMINARIST (noun)
  The noun SEMINARIST has 1 sense:

1. a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary)

  Familiarity information: SEMINARIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEMINARIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

seminarian; seminarist

Hypernyms ("seminarist" is a kind of...):

educatee; pupil; student (a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

Derivation:

seminary (a private place of education for the young)

seminary (a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis)