Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A meeting or conference for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations.
- noun A collection of writings on a particular topic, as in a magazine.
- noun A convivial meeting for drinking, music, and intellectual discussion among the ancient Greeks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drinking together; a compotation; a merry feast; a convivial meeting.
- noun Hence, in a loose use, any collection of opinions, as of commentators on a disputed passage; in a recent use, a collection of short articles, as in a magazine, by several writers, on various aspects of a given topic: as, a symposium on the Indian question.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A drinking together; a merry feast.
- noun A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
conference or othermeeting fordiscussion of atopic , especially one in which theparticipants makepresentations . - noun A
drinking party , especially one withintellectual discussion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I don't know about you, but when I hear the word symposium I experience a certain frisson.
Slate Articles Simon Doonan 2011
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I believe Griff, being a little afraid of her quickness, led her to suppose he was going to hold what he called a symposium in his rooms, and to think it a mystery of college life not intended for young ladies.
Chantry House Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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If you like to discuss questions like these, you will be happy that the latest Wall Of Text from Shawn Elliot's reviews symposium is now published.
Archive 2009-02-01 SVGL 2009
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If you like to discuss questions like these, you will be happy that the latest Wall Of Text from Shawn Elliot's reviews symposium is now published.
My Cat Is A Sega Fan SVGL 2009
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The symposium is co-sponsored by the Huffington Post and Open Center and will take place in New York City on Friday, February 20th.
Sex in America: Can The Conversation Change? « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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The symposium is free and open to the public, with no registration required.
Airline industry and regulators examine issues around "code sharing" 2010
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The BOBCATSSS 2009 symposium is organised by students from the University of Tampere, Finland and the University of Porto, Portugal - 28-30 January 2009 - Porto, Portugal
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I'll be honest, because I've said as much to my fellow participants -- I'm kind of not so sure what the ultimate aim of the symposium is or what end, exactly, it's intended to serve, but it is an interesting discussion among us about the issues that concern the work we do.
The Reviews Symposium, Part I SVGL 2008
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With a rising global middle class projected by the UN to double meat consumption (. pdf) by 2050, and livestock already responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gases, the symposium is drawing a variety of scientists, environmentalists and food industry experts.
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The symposium is intended for policy makers, practitioners and technologists working in the areas of information and communications technology and e-learning service delivery in UK HE and FE institutions.
Archive 2007-05-06 Milosun Czervik 2007
muse25 commented on the word symposium
The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking gathering at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens.
October 23, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word symposium
Usage/historical note can be found in comment on promulsis.
January 6, 2017