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m)n. pl. sym·po·si·ums or sym·po·si·a (-z-)1. A meeting or conference for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations.
2. A collection of writings on a particular topic, as in a magazine.
3. A convivial meeting for drinking, music, and intellectual discussion among the ancient Greeks.
[Latin, drinking party, from Greek sumposion : sun-, syn- + posis, drinking; see p(i)- in Indo-European roots.]
symposium [sɪmˈpəʊzɪəm]
n pl -siums, -sia [-zɪə]
1. (Social Science / Education) a conference or meeting for the discussion of some subject, esp an academic topic or social problem
2. (Social Science / Education) a collection of scholarly contributions, usually published together, on a given subject
3. (Historical Terms) (in classical Greece) a drinking party with intellectual conversation, music, etc.
[via Latin from Greek sumposion, from sumpinein to drink together, from sum- syn- + pinein to drink]
