session

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Etymology

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (a sitting), from sedeō (sit).

Pronunciation

Noun

session (plural sessions)

  1. A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
    counseling session
    a training session
    jam session
    "Are we having a recording session?" / "Yes. We've even got some session musicians to provide some brass."
    • 2009, Michael Otto with Stefan G. Hofmann, Avoiding Treatment Failures in the Anxiety Disorders, page 137:
      Alternatively, if the patient is stuck ritualizing before session, then the therapist might want to create contingencies that might help the patient come in on time
  2. 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. (computing) 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. (cricket) 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. (chiefly obsolete or theology) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
  6. (music) Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
  7. (education) An academic term; semester; school year.
  8. (beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
  9. (Presbyterianism) The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.

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Descendants

  • Japanese: セッション (sesshon)
  • Korean: 세션 (sesyeon)
  • Scottish Gaelic: seisean

Translations

Verb

session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)

  1. (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
    • 2009 May 3, Virginia Heffernan, “World Music”, in New York Times:
      “I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said.

Anagrams

Finnish

Noun

session

  1. genitive singular of sessio

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessiōnem.

Pronunciation

Noun

session f (plural sessions)

  1. session, period
  2. (computing) session

Further reading

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessiō, sessiōnem.

Noun

session oblique singularf (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)

  1. sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.)

Descendants

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessiō.

Noun

session c

  1. a session (period with meetings, or training sessions and the like by extension)
    vara i session
    be in session
  2. a session (meeting)

Declension

Declension of session
nominative genitive
singular indefinite session sessions
definite sessionen sessionens
plural indefinite sessioner sessioners
definite sessionerna sessionernas

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