EGAVE

session

About 28.91 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
    counseling session
  2. noun 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.
    This court is now in session.
  3. noun The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
    Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.
  4. noun 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. noun The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
  6. noun Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
  7. noun An academic term; semester; school year.
  8. noun An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.

Similar words

seance sitting academic term school term parliamentary committee hon council league townhall

Often followed by

of in and was with to on is at

Word family

session beer session beers sessional sessions

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