Symposium

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  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
  • noun. A drinking party, especially one with intellectual discussion.
    • 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
    • Word Usage
    "I don't know about you, but when I hear the word symposium I experience a certain frisson."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    conference  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Bacchanalia  perfectionism  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Festschrift  airing  album  ana  analects  
    variant
    symposia  
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