seminary
/ˈsemɪnərɪ/noun
(pl. -ies)
1- a training college for priests or rabbis神学院。
1.1
- archaic, figurative a place or thing in which something is developed or cultivated〈古, 喻〉发源地; 温床：
a glossary would have been a nursery and seminary of blunder.
简明词典可能成为重大错误的滋生地。
派生词
seminarian
/ˌsemɪˈneərɪən/ nounseminarist
noun词源
late Middle English (denoting a seed plot)： from Latin seminarium 'seed plot', neuter of seminarius 'of seed', from semen 'seed'.