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seminarist

seminarist noun: a student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary.

Noun

seminarist (plural seminarists)

  1. A student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary.
    Synonyms:
    seminarian
  2. (archaic) A member of a seminar.

seminarist meaning in Tamil, Indonesian and Vietnamese

seminarist in Tamil

கருத்தரங்கினர்

seminarist in Indonesian

student at a seminary
seminaris

seminarist in Vietnamese

student at a seminary
chủng sinh

Synonyms of seminarist

Forms of seminarist

pluralseminarists

Origin of seminarist

From seminary + -ist.

Questions about seminarist

What does seminarist mean?
Seminarist means a student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary.
What is seminarist in Tamil?
Seminarist in Tamil is கருத்தரங்கினர். See Seminarist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is seminarist?
Seminarist is a noun.
What is the plural of seminarist?
The plural of seminarist is seminarists.

Words near seminarist in the dictionary

  1. seminarianism
  2. seminarians
  3. seminaries
  4. Seminario
  5. Seminarios
  6. seminarist
  7. seminarists
  8. seminarlike
  9. seminarrative
  10. seminars
  11. seminary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seminarist (page history and authors); seminarist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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