symposium
symposium Lexical Profile
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• noun
A formal conference or meeting at which specialists deliver short addresses on a particular topic or related subjects.
"Researchers from around the world gathered in Geneva for the annual symposium on renewable energy."
A published collection of essays, articles, or papers contributed by multiple authors on a single subject.
"The university press recently published a symposium of critical essays examining nineteenth-century literature."
In ancient Greece, a convivial drinking party following a banquet, characterized by music, dancing, and intellectual or philosophical conversation.
"At an ancient Athenian symposium, guests reclined on couches while discussing poetry and politics over diluted wine."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek sympósion ('drinking party'), formed from syn- ('together') and posis ('a drinking'). The modern sense of an academic conference was popularized by Plato's famous philosophical dialogue The Symposium, which is set at an Athenian banquet.