session
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
session/ˈseʃn/
▶noun
- 1 a period devoted to a particular activity: a training session.
■ a period of recording music in a studio.
■ informal a period of heavy or sustained drinking.
- 2 (often in phr. in session) a meeting of a deliberative or judicial body to conduct its business.
■ a period during which such meetings are regularly held.
- 3 the part of a year or a day during which teaching takes place in a school or college.
- 4 the governing body of a Presbyterian Church.
– derivatives
sessional adjective.
sessional adjective.
'session' also found in these Oxford entries:
booze-up
- chapter
- circuit
- closed
- clutch
- Court of Session
- CS
- diet
- eisteddfod
- end
- executive session
- interview
- Kirk session
- Lord Ordinary
- Lords of Session
- Outer House
- paper
- piss
- piss-up
- prorogue
- rise
- run-out
- sauna
- senator
- sesh
- session clerk
- session musician
- shiur
- signet
- steam bath
- take
- trick
- warm-up
- water cure
- wet pack
- workout
- wrap
- writer to the Signet
