| 单词 | colloquium |
| 释义 | colloquium (once / 71633 pages) n A colloquium is an academic conference or meeting. At a colloquium, you’ll spend a couple of days listening to lectures with a group of people who all know a lot about one particular subject. The root of colloquium is the Latin loqui, meaning “to talk, ” which is what people tend to do at a conference. If you’re attending a colloquium on hummingbirds, you’re going to meet a lot of biologists who talk about hummingbirds. If you’re giving a lecture at the same colloquium, you’d better hope you know a lot about hummingbirds or you might get run out of the conference! WORD FAMILYcolloquium: colloquia, colloquiums USAGE EXAMPLESBut poets don’t want to be fodder for panels and colloquia, and Hutchinson’s poems are oppositional and disruptive, sometimes tauntingly so. The New Yorker(Nov 13, 2016) News Colloquium on Quality Measures as part of the Healthcare of Tomorrow conference. US News(Oct 19, 2016) News conduct quality measurement, we are convening a colloquium on November 4 in Washington, D.C., which will be the final keynote of the annual U.S. US News(Oct 07, 2016) 1n an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting Hypo|Hyper research colloquium a colloquium at which the results of (scientific) research are reported conference a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda) 2n an address to an academic meeting or seminar Hyper address, speech the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience |
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