Definitions for symposium

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symposium sym·po·si·um

Spelling: [sim-poh-zee-uh m]

IPA: /sɪmˈpoʊ zi əm/

Symposium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in symposium (immopssuy).

Definitions for symposium

noun

1. a meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience.
2. a collection of opinions expressed or articles contributed by several persons on a given subject or topic.
3. an account of a discussion meeting or of the conversation at it.
4. (in ancient Greece and Rome) a convivial meeting, usually following a dinner, for drinking and intellectual conversation.
5. (initial capital letter, italics) a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato, dealing with ideal love and the vision of absolute beauty.

Origin of symposium

1580-90; Latin Greek sympósion drinking party, equivalent to sym- sym- + po- (variant stem of pī́nein to drink) + -sion noun suffix

Examples for symposium

Tomorrow morning, Democracy and CFED are hosting an even at CFED's offices to discuss the issues raised in the symposium.

Two of the events, nearly ten percent of this symposium, perpetuate the lie that Zionism is racism.

There are no means of determining the relative order in time of the Phaedrus, symposium, Phaedo.

The Phaedo also presents some points of comparison with the symposium.

One such add-on, Zerocoin, debuted at a San Francisco symposium in May.

Wiliam addressed a symposium of leading conservationists gathered by his United For Wildlife charity.

The symposium cannot therefore be regarded as a youthful work.

We are no longer in such good company as in the Phaedrus and symposium.

The symposium may be observed to resemble as well as to differ from the Phaedo.

Yet this 'passion of the reason' is the theme of the symposium of Plato.