symposium
noun
a meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience.
symposia
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pluralof symposium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Maria Eriksdotter has participated as a consultant in one-off meetings with BioArctic AB, Roche, Eli Lilly, Biogen/Eisai and Novo Nordisk, and has given lectures at symposia sponsored by Roche and BioArctic/Eisai.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
The settlement includes $5,000 reserved in the provost’s office to pay for meeting expenses, events and symposia sponsored by the Carolina Black Caucus per year through June 2025, according to Hannah-Jones.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
With this April 15 marking the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking baseball's color line, Major League Baseball will celebrate the occasion with great fanfare – with tributes, movies, TV specials, museum exhibits and symposia.
From Salon ● May 14, 2022
Finally, the Greeks took part in a range of cultural practices, from listening to traveling storytellers who recited the Iliad and Odyssey from memory to holding drawn-out drinking parties called symposia.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
“We talked about physics,” Oppenheimer recalled, recognizing that Ernest’s intellectual interests were narrower than his own and that he might not be especially receptive to wide-ranging symposia on Eastern philosophy and Western art.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
