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session¹
- /ˈsɛ.ʃən/ US, UK
Sounds like cession · Rhymes with -ɛʃən
Where it comes from
From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).
noun sessions
- A period of time devoted to a particular activity. counseling session
- An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body to conduct its business; e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislature (that together comprise the legislative term), whose individual meetings are also called sessions. This court is now in session.
- The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected. Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.
- Any of the three scheduled two-hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
- The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.
- Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
- An academic term; semester; school year.
- An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
- The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.
verb sessions · sessioning · sessioned
- To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians. “I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said.
Session²
Where it comes from
Variant of Sessions.
proper noun Sessions
- A surname.
Session³
proper noun
- Ellipsis of Session Road
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: seance, sitting, academic term, school term, parliamentary, committee, hon, council, league, townhall, convention, sess, congress, plenary, conference, semester
Translations
Every language
noun period devoted to a particular activity
| Español | sesión |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 회기 hoegi |
| 日本語 | 会期 kaiki |
| 中文 | 會期 /会期 huìqī |
| हिन्दी | अधिवेशन adhiveśan |
| Português | sessão |
| Français | séance |
| Deutsch | Sitzung, Session |
| Italiano | sessione, tornata, seduta |
| Ελληνικά | συνεδρίαση synedríasi |
| Română | sesiune |
| Русский | се́ссия séssija, сеа́нс seáns |
| العربية | جَلْسَة jalsa |
| עברית | יְשִׁיבָה y'shivá |
noun meeting of a body to conduct business
| Español | sesión |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 회의 hoe'ui |
| 日本語 | 会議 kaigi |
| 中文 | 會議 /会议 huìyì |
| हिन्दी | अधिवेशन adhiveśan, सम्मेलन sammelan, सभा sabhā, बैठक baiṭhak |
| Kiswahili | mkutano |
| Português | sessão |
| Français | session |
| Deutsch | Sitzung, Session, Tagung |
| Italiano | sessione |
| Ελληνικά | σύνοδος sýnodos, συνεδρίαση synedríasi |
| Română | ședință, sesie, sesiune |
| Русский | се́ссия séssija, заседа́ние zasedánije |
| Tiếng Việt | phiên họp |
| العربية | دَوْرَة dawra |
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title = {session},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/session},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
