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Session   /sˈɛʃən/   Listen
Session

noun
1.
A meeting for execution of a group's functions.
2.
The time during which a school holds classes.  Synonyms: academic session, academic term, school term.
3.
A meeting devoted to a particular activity.  "A gossip session"
4.
A meeting of spiritualists.  Synonyms: seance, sitting.



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"Session" Quotes from Famous Books



... in fact, delivered in the summer of 1918 at Cambridge University as part of a summer session devoted to the United States of America. It is reprinted in lecture form in order that the point of view may ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby
... in Ordinary are appointed by the monarch for life); Supreme Courts of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (comprising the Courts of Appeal, the High Courts of Justice, and the Crown Courts); Scotland's Court of Session ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... The last session (1883) has opened the eyes of many to the absurdity of allowing a single member to block a bill. When it is considered that, in an assembly of six hundred, there is probably at least one man, like Fergus O'Conner, verging on insanity, ...
— Practical Essays • Alexander Bain
... I must denounce Temperance as the deadliest of sins, and proclaim Abstinence to be the only virtue. There is a grand State Convention of Progressive Gladiators at present in session in Foxden; all the neighboring towns have sent delegates. Well, it was only yesterday afternoon that Stellato, in behalf of one of the committees, denounced the clergy of New England as gross flesh-eaters who had made themselves ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863 • Various
... every night was an all-night sitting. Under the old rules of Procedure, as the Session advanced, we were kept up night after night till 5 a.m. Some Members, notably the late Henry Labouchere, took a sort of impish delight in keeping the House sitting late. Many Front-Bench men had their lives shortened by the strain ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton


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