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symposiast

[sim-poh-zee-ast, -uh st]
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noun
  1. a person who attends or participates in a symposium.
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Origin of symposiast

1650–60; orig. < assumed Greek symposiastḗs (unattested), a derivative of symposiázein “to drink together” (with agentive suffix -tēs), a verbal derivative of symposíon “drinking party” (see symposium); in recent use probably recoinage: symposi(um) + -ast
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symposiast

noun
  1. a person who takes part in a symposium
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