[sem.i.nary] n, pl -nar.ies [ME, seedbed, nursery, fr. L seminarium, fr. semin-, semen seed] (1542) 1: an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated "a ~ of vice and crime"
2. a: an institution of secondary or higher education b: an institution for the training of candidates for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate