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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



... calamities of war; and I then had no other intention than to pass the remainder of my life as a private citizen. Two days afterward, upon the invitation of the Governor of Virginia, I repaired to Richmond; found that the Convention then in session had passed the ordinance withdrawing the State from the Union; and accepted the commission of commander of its forces, which ...
— Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee • Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son
... do, ma'am, is to telegraph to my agent in Edinburgh. He will arrange for the speediest possible hearing of our case in the Court of Session. Make ...
— The Evil Genius • Wilkie Collins
... and Puffin hastened to say something pleasant about the hearthrug, to which his friend had a suitable rejoinder. But after the affair last night, and the dark sayings in the High Street this morning, there was little content or cosiness about the session. Puffin's brazen optimism was but a tinkling cymbal, and the Major did not feel like tinkling at all. He but snorted and glowered, revolving in his mind how to square Miss Mapp. Allied with her, if she could but be won over, he felt he could face the rest of Tilling with indifference, for ...
— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson
... tall men in the party are my father and the cashier of the Night and Day bank. I'll take a sneak, and that will shorten the session." ...
— Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns • Major Archibald Lee Fletcher
... further; don't tell a soul;"tell it not in Gath,"nobody the wiser; alitur vitium vivitque tegendo[Lat][obs3]; "let it be tenable in your silence still"[Hamlet]. [confidential disclosure to news reporters] background information, deep background information, deep background; background session, backgrounder; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus • Peter Mark Roget


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