a training college for priests or rabbis 神学院 ■(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 seminarian [-ˈnɛːrɪən] noun seminarist noun 语源
late Middle English (denoting a seed plot): from Latin seminarium 'seed plot', neuter of seminarius 'of seed', from semen 'seed'