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[seminar 词源字典] - seminar: see seed
[seminar etymology, seminar origin, 英语词源] - seminar (n.)
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- 1887, "special group-study class for advanced students," from German Seminar "group of students working with a professor," from Latin seminarium "breeding ground, plant nursery" (see seminary). Sense of "meeting for discussion of a subject" first recorded 1944.