symposium

A meeting or conference for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations.

A collection of writings on a particular topic, as in a magazine.

A convivial meeting for drinking, music, and intellectual discussion among the ancient Greeks.

A drinking together; a compotation; a merry feast; a convivial meeting.

Hence, in a loose use, any collection of opinions, as of commentators on a disputed passage; in a recent use, a collection of short articles, as in a magazine, by several writers, on various aspects of a given topic: as, a symposium on the Indian question.

A drinking together; a merry feast.

A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; — so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.

A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.

A drinking party, especially one with intellectual discussion.

a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations