Symposium

//sɪmˈpəʊziəm// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
  2. 2
    a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations wordnet
  3. 3
    A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.
  4. 4
    A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.

    "THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write."

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"The symposium was a little rougher than usual: "Never again," said Socrates the morning after."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).

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