seminary

seminary
[ˈsɛmɪn(ə)ri]
(pl. -ies)
  1. 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
  1. late Middle English (denoting a seed plot): from Latin seminarium 'seed plot', neuter of seminarius 'of seed', from semen 'seed'
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