This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

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n. A meeting of a legislative or judicial body for the purpose of transacting business.

n. A series of such meetings.

n. The term or duration of time that is taken by such a series of meetings.

n. The part of a year or of a day during which a school holds classes.

n. An assembly of people for a common purpose or because of a common interest: a gossip session.

n. Law A court of criminal jurisdiction in the United States: the court of sessions.

n. A period of time devoted to a specific activity, as to recording music in a studio.

n. A period devoted to a particular activity.

n. A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business.

n. The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

n. 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.

n. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

n. The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.

n. Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.

n. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated: now rare except in the specific theological sense of Christ's sitting or enthronement at the right hand of God the Father. Also assession.

n. The sitting together of a body of individuals for the transaction of business; the sitting of a court, academic body, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of these or any similar body for the transaction of business: as, the court is now in session (that is, the members are assembled for business).

n. The time, space, or term during which a court, council, legislature, or the like meets daily for business, or transacts business regularly without breaking up.

n. plural In law, a sitting of justices in court, originally, as in England, upon commission: as, the sessions of oyer and terminer. See oyer.

n. Eccles., the lowest court of the Presbyterian Church, composed of the pastor and ruling or lay elders of the local church.

n. the time during which a school holds classes

n. a meeting devoted to a particular activity

n. a meeting for execution of a group's functions

n. a meeting of spiritualists

"A two-day mini-meeting on the special topic of Biological Anthropology (April 26-27) will include four symposia, a platform session, and a poster session¬, all designed to shed light on cranial and postcranial functional anatomy, adaptations in soft-tissue anatomy and fossil evidence for human evolution."

get together    meeting   

court of sessions    court of session    clerk of the session    petty sessions    session of christ    sessions of the peace    general session of the peace    county sessions    ordinary of assize and sessions    lords of council and session   

bull session   

meeting    sitting    diet    court    assize    school   

Hessian    accession    aggression    compression    concession    confession    decompression    depression    digression    discretion   

meeting    program    discussion    trip    event    lecture    data    project    exercise    report