seminary
/ˈsɛmɪnɛri/
noun
- A school for training people to become priests, ministers, or rabbis.
- She taught at a rabbinical seminary for many years.
- He decided to enter the seminary after college.
- The seminary offers courses in theology and pastoral care.
- A place where something is developed or originates (formal or figurative use).
- The workshop became a seminary for young artists.
- That university was a seminary of new ideas in the 19th century.
- The city was a seminary of political thought.