session
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛ.ʃən/
The English word “session” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
- 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.
- The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
- 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.
- 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
- To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
Etymology
From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).
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