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Synonyms for symposia

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

Top 10 synonyms for symposia
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Définition of symposia

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 :
  • Mrs. Tuttle did not favor the grave character of these symposia.
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1917 » by Various
  • For myself, I prefer our own tea-table to the symposia to which I am often invited.
  • Extract from : « Over the Teacups » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • He gave up his leisure hours to Symposia by no means Socratical.
  • Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He gave up his leisure hours to symposia by no means Socratical.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 » by Various
  • No doubt Francisco Pacheco brought his pupil Velazquez to the symposia.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Seville » by Walter M. Gallichan
  • Their symposia are held in a place without the city, which they call the Elysian Field.
  • Extract from : « Trips to the Moon » by Lucian
  • The house was thus a small centre of intellectual life, though the symposia were not altogether such as became philosophers.
  • Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume I. » by Leslie Stephen
  • The body of Curetes celebrate their Symposia at the same time, and perform certain mystic sacrifices.
  • Extract from : « The Geography of Strabo, Volume III (of 3) » by Strabo
  • When were symposia more attractive than when the élite of Athens, in the time of Pericles, feasted and communed together?
  • Extract from : « Beacon Lights of History, Volume III » by John Lord
  • I read nothing with more pleasure than their Symposia: to say nothing of Athenaeus, whose work is one long banquet.
  • Extract from : « Gryll Grange » by Thomas Love Peacock
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