colloquium
noun
a conference at which scholars or other experts present papers on, analyze, and discuss a specific topic.
colloquia
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pluralof colloquium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Thus began seven years of solitude in which he traded math conferences and departmental colloquia for his cluttered office at Princeton and, when possible, his attic study.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
Steiner went to the seminars and the colloquia, absorbing everything, enjoying it.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2021
But poets don’t want to be fodder for panels and colloquia, and Hutchinson’s poems are oppositional and disruptive, sometimes tauntingly so.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2016
We have thesis defenses and colloquia and conferences.
From Slate ● May 1, 2015
Subsequent invitations to the research colloquia were not to be expected, and even the most casual questioning of Maurice would provoke the suspicion that we were at it again.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
