SYMPOSIUM (symposia)

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Irregular inflected form: symposia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does symposium mean? 

• SYMPOSIUM (noun)
  The noun SYMPOSIUM has 1 sense:

1. a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations

  Familiarity information: SYMPOSIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYMPOSIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("symposium" is a kind of...):

conference (a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda))

 Context examples 

She took them with her one night to a select symposium, held in honor of several celebrities.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)