Definitions for session

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session ses·sion

Spelling: [sesh-uh n]

IPA: /ˈsɛʃ ən/

Session is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in session (einosss).

Definitions for session

noun

1. the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business:
2. a single continuous sitting, or period of sitting, of persons so assembled.
3. a continuous series of sittings or meetings of a court, legislature, or the like.
4. the period or term during which such a series is held.
5. sessions, (in English law) the sittings or a sitting of justices in court, usually to deal with minor offenses, grant licenses, etc.
6. a single continuous course or period of lessons, study, etc., in the work of a day at school:
7. a portion of the year into which instruction is organized at a college or other educational institution.
8. the governing body of a local Presbyterian church, composed of the pastor who moderates and the elders.
9. a period of time during which a group of persons meets to pursue a particular activity:

Origin of session

1350-1400; Middle English Medieval Latin sessiōn- (stem of sessiō) law-court sitting, Latin: sitting, equivalent to sess(us) (past participle of sedēre to sit¹

Examples for session

During one session, detainee Abu Zubaydah became “completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open full mouth.”

It had been voted without debate at the very close of the session.

Couple removed the weights and continued the session further.

In the sixth session, the same was done with the letter of Ibas.

The budget of the session of 1882 was presented by Mr. Gladstone April 24th.

From the very beginning of the session their overthrow was imminent.

During this session other difficulties were encountered by the Ministry.

He started out with solo flights, but in this session over the desert outside Dubai he really pushes the envelope.

These are eight of the most interesting laws passed in the second session of the 113th Congress.

But when the 114th Congress gavels into session in January, GOP speechwriters are going to need some new material.