symposium

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /sɪmˈpəʊziəm/    美 /sɪmˈpoʊziəm/|/sɪmˈpəʉziəm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
  2. A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.
  3. A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.
    — THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write.

词形变化

symposiums plural symposia plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cybersymposium
相关词
symposiast sympotic Symposium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) in Dictionary.com Oxford University Press 2019–2022

词源

Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”), from συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”). Morphologically compare compotation.
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