Symposium Meaning

/sɪmˈpəʊziəm/
B2

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nounA conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.

nounA drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.

The symposium was a little rougher than usual: "Never again," said Socrates the morning after.
Tom is attending a writers' symposium in Boston.
CEFR Practice Quiz
A one-day ____ on climate change will take place next week at the college.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I have been invited to speak at an international ____ about the future of renewable energy in our country today.

Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”), from συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”). Morphologically compare compotation.

"THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write." — 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
A one-day ____ on climate change will take place next week at the college.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I have been invited to speak at an international ____ about the future of renewable energy in our country today.

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