session

Noun

1. A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
2. 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.
3. The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
4. 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.
5. (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
7. An academic term; semester; school year.
8. An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
9. The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.

Verb

To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɛʃ(ə)n/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: session

In summary

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).

Synonyms

meeting

sitting

assembly

conference

seance

council

convention

set

collection

congress

congregation

reunion

🇷🇪

gathering

team

term

bout

convocation

school term

group

academic term

academic session

series

holding

legislative period

maintenance

manners

meal

performance

period of time

presence

regulation

reign

round

rule

ruling

séance

semester

shift

storage

synod

talk

🗣️

upkeep

manner of dress

formal meeting

appointment

parliamentary term

ascendance

ascendancy

assignation

attendance

Translations

session

sesión

Sitzung

séance

sessione

sessão

sesja

sessie

seduta

sessió

zitting

oturum

σύνοδος

zittingsperiode

Sitzungsperiode

Sentences

The Scotland Act set out a four-year maximum term for each session of Parliament .

Despite this , the band continued with established session guitarist B . J . Cole replacing McCabe .