symposium
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7.3
- noun
- /sɪmˈpoʊziəm/
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simposio
- The topic of the scientific symposium will be "The Birth and Evolution of Massive Stars."
- hold a symposium
- organize a symposium
- an international symposium
When he's not planning symposia, it's all yours, Rob.
- When he's not planning symposia, it's all yours, Rob.
- First, each year Radcliffe holds a major science symposium in the fall.
- I got asked on behalf of my company to go to this symposium for compliance.
- As some of you know, the Vision and Justice Symposium was conceived by Sarah Lewis.
- Neural Link did one such symposium where they showed implant devices in pigs, right?
- So, so you should watch that symposium because the videos were transformative to me and to many others.
- She came out to symposium last fall.
- Yes, not a symposium, a mask fitting.
- I think that's relevant to to what the topics this this symposium has been.
- Crabtree, he was, I sent him on the rookie symposium bus.
- You know, after we do this millionaire Symposium event, seeing if we want to do and start planning for another one next year.
Examples
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And at the symposium, people gave talks and lectures from different points of view.
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And then we're planning to do a virtual symposium probably in August on the stone date theory.
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At the end of the second summer symposium, this same group planned the first fall session.
Academic text (1990) -
The doctors have been asked to head a symposium.
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The topic of this symposium is the relationship between law and morality.
Academic text (2008) -
And we recently had a symposium in the Beckman Center this week on evolution.
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There's a symposium on semantics.
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My presentation at our statewide symposium regarding this issue in December 2010 was titled "Insult to Injury."
Academic text (2011) -
Recently, I attended a symposium characterized by a proliferation of slips of the tongue.
Fiction book (2001) -
The researchers presented their findings at the annual symposium on climate change.
Synonyms
∞
3.0
A formal meeting where people discuss and share information
209
3.7
A small class where people discuss a topic with a teacher
2
8.1
An academic meeting where people present and discuss research
A meeting where experts present and discuss study results
How Formal
- Formal
12
3.2
47
7.3
- Formal
∞
3.0
209
3.7
175
3.3
718
1.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word symposium comes from an old Greek idea of a drinking party: sym- means 'together' and -posis means 'drinking'. People at those gatherings drank and talked, so today a symposium is a meeting where experts come together to talk about a subject.