单词 | symposium |
释义 | symposium/sɪmˈpəʊzɪəm /noun (plural symposia /sɪmˈpəʊzɪə/ or symposiums) 1A conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject.There is a long history behind the ICS; most of the early international geological congresses had symposia and meetings to debate and decide stratigraphical procedures and nomenclature....
1.1A collection of essays or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.Keith Young published over 100 papers and contributed to numerous symposia and field guides dealing with Mesozoic biostratigraphy....
2A drinking party or convivial discussion, especially as held in ancient Greece after a banquet (and notable as the title of a work by Plato).One song was apparently written for a symposium (drinking party) given by Archidamus II king of Sparta....
OriginLate 16th century (denoting a drinking party): via Latin from Greek sumposion, from sumpotēs 'fellow drinker', from sun- 'together' + potēs 'drinker'. |
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