All seminary synonyms
sem·i·nar·y
S s noun seminary
- finishing school — a private school, usually at the high-school or junior-college level, that teaches young women social graces and prepares them for life in society.
- academy — Academy is sometimes used in the names of schools and colleges, especially those specializing in particular subjects or skills, or private high schools in the United States.
- class — A class is a group of pupils or students who are taught together.
- college — A college is an institution where students study after they have left school.
- institution — an organization, establishment, foundation, society, or the like, devoted to the promotion of a particular cause or program, especially one of a public, educational, or charitable character: This college is the best institution of its kind.
- boarding school — A boarding school is a school which some or all of the pupils live in during the school term. Compare day school.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- orphanage — an institution for the housing and care of orphans.
- military school — military academy.
- lyceum — an institution for popular education providing discussions, lectures, concerts, etc.
- homeroom — a classroom in which pupils in the same grade or division of a grade meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher, who takes attendance and administers other school business.