symposium

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  1. noun A meeting or conference for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations.
  2. noun A collection of writings on a particular topic, as in a magazine.
  3. noun A convivial meeting for drinking, music, and intellectual discussion among the ancient Greeks.

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  • We're very excited about the possibilities Between you, me, and the gatepost, this symposium is a boondoggling joyride No, Brick, it is a scholarly venture I groaned. —  EQMM, Sep - Oct 2006
  • The central idea for the symposium is to have contributed papers on a range of conceptual issues that have not been addressed by (or at least are not an explicit part of) the MS, with the authors attempting not as much to give the latest technical update, but rather to provide an organic view of in what sense the new ideas can be said to extend the current scope of evolutionary theory. —  ScreenTalk
  • Though Professor Buiter's (of the London School of Economics and Political Science) assertions were certainly provocative, for me the truly thought-provoking aspect of the symposium was the collective effort to address some deep questions that still seek answers. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • The fee for the symposium is $40 for early bird registration postmarked by March 1, $50 after March 1, and $210 for a six-person table. —  ThePittsburghChannel.com - Local News
  • This symposium is also organized as a part of the joint initiative taken earlier by the Office of Tibet in New York, UNIFESP and Palas Athena to promote a collaborative work between the Federal University of Sao Paulo's School of Medicine and Dharamsala-based Tibetan Medical and Astrological Institute (Men-Tsee-Khang or TMAI). —  Phayul Latest News
 

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  1. Latin, drinking party, from Greek sumposion : sun-, syn- + posis, drinking; see pō(i)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also sometimes symposion; from Latin symposium, from Greek συμπόσ, σ1ιον, a drinking-party, drinking after a dinner, from συμπίνειν, drink with or together, from σύν, together, + πίνειν, drink: see potation.
 

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/sɪmˈpoʊziəm/
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