how to pronounce seminary

/ˈsɛməˌnɛɹiː/

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seminary is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of seminary in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… the seminary closed and it remained …”

meaning of seminary

Seminary is a school for training priests, ministers, or rabbis.

seminary frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word seminary occurs in english on average 3.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics seminary can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that seminary can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;