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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sɪmˈpəʊziəm/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /sɪmˈpoʊziəm/
• (General Australian) IPA: /sɪmˈpəʉziəm/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /səmˈpɐʉziəm/

名詞

symposium (plural symposiums or symposia)

1. A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
2. A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.

   Alternative form: symposion

3. A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.
   • 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:

     THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write.

関連する語

• symposiast
• sympotic

参考

• symposium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Symposium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• “symposium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

名詞

symposium n (genitive symposiī or symposī); second declension

1. symposium

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

参照

• “symposium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “symposium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin