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Missionary vs Seminary - What's the difference?

missionary | seminary |

As nouns the difference between missionary and seminary

is that missionary is one who is sent on a mission while seminary is a theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.

As an adjective seminary is

of or relating to seed; seminal.

missionary

English

Noun

(missionaries)
  • One who is sent on a mission.
  • A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or a creed.
  • A Muslim missionary was just trying to convert me to Islam .
  • (pejorative) A religious messenger.
  • (uncountable) A common position for undertaking sexual intercourse.
  • See also

    * (wikipedia "missionary") *

    seminary

    Noun

    (seminaries)
  • A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
  • A private residential school for girls.
  • * 1885 , ,
  • Three little maids who, all unwary,
    Come from a ladies' seminary
  • (Mormonism) A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
  • A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
  • (Mortimer)
  • * Evelyn
  • But if you draw them [seedlings] only for the thinning of your seminary , prick them into some empty beds.
  • (by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
  • (Woodward)
  • (obsolete) Seminal state or polity.
  • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
  • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Derived terms

    * seminarian * seminarist

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to seed; seminal.