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Grammar : Noun
Spell : sim-poh-zee-uh m
Phonetic Transcription : sɪmˈpoʊ zi əm

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Origin :
  • 1580s, "account of a gathering or party," from Latin symposium "drinking party, symposium," from Greek symposion "convivial gathering of the educated" (related to sympotes "drinking companion"), from syn- "together" (see syn-) + posis "a drinking," from a stem of Aeolic ponen "to drink," cognate with Latin potare "to drink" (see potion). The sense of "meeting on some subject" is from 1784. Reflecting the Greek fondness for mixing wine and intellectual discussion, the modern sense is especially from the word being used as a title for one of Plato's dialogues. Greek plural is symposia, and the leader of one is a symposiarch (c.1600 in English).
  • noun conference
Example sentences :
  • There are no means of determining the relative order in time of the Phaedrus, Symposium, Phaedo.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
  • The Phaedo also presents some points of comparison with the Symposium.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
  • Yet this 'passion of the reason' is the theme of the Symposium of Plato.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
  • The Symposium cannot therefore be regarded as a youthful work.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
  • The Symposium may be observed to resemble as well as to differ from the Phaedo.
  • Extract from : « Phaedo » by Plato
  • We are no longer in such good company as in the Phaedrus and Symposium.
  • Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
  • On my last evening in hospital especially, there was quite a symposium.
  • Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • THE symposium of the preceding evening had been a little too much for my nerves.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
  • In these respects the symposium will not prove a disappointment.
  • Extract from : « Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements » by Various
  • To no one did it occur, even, that that was to be the last "symposium."
  • Extract from : « Quo Vadis » by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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