seminarist vs student

seminarist and student both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
seminarist	Yes	No	No	No
student	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, student is a hypernym of seminarist; that is, student is a word with a broader meaning than seminarist:

Other hypernyms of seminarist include educatee, pupil.

seminarist (noun)	student (noun)
a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary)	a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
	someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs