The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SEMINARY
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More clues leading to the result SEMINARY
- House not ever needed as college
- College not halved?
- Changed in 1000 years
- Marines trained for a year in academy
- Is my religious education an outcome of this place?
- Theological establishment, house no rector would enter
- Religious establishment never follows House
- Where ministers could have learnt from poor miner, say
- College remains crumbling close to Ely
- Many rise when trained in educational establishment
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What does SEMINARY mean?
SEMINARY noun- A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
- A private residential school for girls.
- 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.
- (by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
- Seminal state or polity.
- A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
- An academic seminar.
- Of or relating to seed; seminal.