session

 
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛʃ(ə)n/

noun

  • 1a meeting of an official body, especially a legislature, council, or court of law, to conduct its business: the governor called this week’s special session to reconsider the decision
  • a period during which an official body meets regularly to conduct its business: legislation to curb wildcat strikes will be introduced during the coming parliamentary session
  • the part of a year or of a day during which teaching takes place in a school or college.
  • 2 [often with modifier] a period devoted to a particular activity: gym is followed by a training session
  • a period of recording music in a studio, especially by a session musician: he did the sessions for a Great Country Hits album
  • informal a period of heavy or sustained drinking: it was one hell of a session— we must have drunk about 12 cocktails each
  • 3the governing body of a Presbyterian Church.

Phrases

in session

assembled for or proceeding with business: throughout the long wait the court remained in session

Derivatives

sessional

adjective

Origin:

late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin sessio(n-), from sess- 'seated' (see sessile)