Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A course of study for a small group of students in a college or graduate school, often entailing research under the guidance of a professor.
- noun The group of students in such a course.
- noun A scheduled meeting of such a group.
- noun A meeting for an exchange of ideas; a conference.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
seminary . 5.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- formerly called also
seminary , now seldom used in this sense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
class held foradvanced studies in which students meet regularly to discussoriginal research , under theguidance of aprofessor . - noun A
meeting held for theexchange of useful information by members of a commonbusiness community .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any meeting for an exchange of ideas
- noun a course offered for a small group of advanced students
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The two hour seminar is a free two hour sales pitch for another seminar, which costs between $3,500 and $4,000.
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This seminar is aimed at people interested in doing business in the open environment presented by rapidly developing networked communications.
Boing Boing 2008
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The material from this seminar is also available under a Creative Commons license (the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License) for others to re-use and add to in creative ways.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Online Seminar on Benkler’s Wealth of Networks 2006
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LIVING WELL WITH DIABETES SEMINAR, led by physicians, the seminar is for people with diabetes, family and friends. 9-11 a.m.,
Prince William County health calendar Post 2010
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Pancho was seen via Skype at the Wine Academy of Spain seminar in NY this week.
Wine Future in Rioja – opening Pandora’s bottle of grenache | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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The design of a seminar is to bring together researchers as well as developers from academia as well as industry working in a areas of image, video as well as audio applications, with a special concentration upon analysis.
Multimedia Communication: WIAMIS-2010: Deadline Extension admin 2009
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The design of a seminar is to bring together researchers as well as developers from academia as well as industry working in a areas of image, video as well as audio applications, with a special concentration upon analysis.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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I realize the seminar is expensive — which means it's not for everyone — but as busy as I'm getting nowadays, something like this seems the only way.
Superstars Writing Seminar in March mistborn 2010
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The seminar is at Wake Forest University, June 2-8.
Wake Forest Liberty and Society Seminar, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The actuarial student does most of the learning on their own, and the seminar is to summarize the material and get over hard points.
School Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
dailyword commented on the word seminar
Watson went to one of these at the end of one of their cases in one of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes episodes.
August 4, 2012