session

English Online Dictionary. What means session‎? What does session mean?

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʃ(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -ɛʃən
• Homophone: cession

Noun

session (plural sessions)

1. A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
2. A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.

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.

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. (obsolete) 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
8. (beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.

Hyponyms

• bull session

Derived terms

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.

Anagrams

• essoins, osseins

Finnish

Noun

session

1. genitive singular of sessio

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.sjɔ̃/ ~ /se.sjɔ̃/

Noun

session f (plural sessions)

1. session, period
2. (computing) session

Related terms

• seoir

Further reading

• “session”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessiō, sessiōnem.

Noun

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

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

Descendants

• Middle French: session f
  • French: session f
• → Middle English: session
  • English: session

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessiō.

Noun

session c

1. a session (period with meetings, or training sessions and the like by extension)

2. a session (meeting)

Declension

Derived terms

• höstsession
• jamsession
• sessionssal
• vårsession

References

• session in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• session in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• session in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)