a college where priests, ministers or rabbis are trained 神学院;修院 He went to the Northern Catholic Seminary to train for the ministry. 他到北方天主教神学院去接受牧师培训。 They spent six years in a seminary. 他们在神学院呆了六年。
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a seed plot): from Latin seminarium ‘seed plot’, neuter of seminarius ‘of seed’, from semen ‘seed’.