Posted on 01/21/2014 5:07:22 AM PST by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday January 21, 2014
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
symposium [sim-poh-zee-uhm]
-n
1. a meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience.
2. a collection of opinions expressed or articles contributed by several persons on a given subject or topic.
3. an account of a discussion meeting or of the conversation at it.
4. (in ancient Greece and Rome) a convivial meeting, usually following a dinner, for drinking and intellectual conversation.
5. ( initial capital letter, italics ) a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato, dealing with ideal love and the vision of absolute beauty.
[1580–90; < Latin < Greek sympósion drinking party, equivalent to sym- sym- + po- (variant stem of pī́nein to drink) + -sion noun suffix ]
de hecho
-adv
in fact, actually
De hecho, ella era la estudiante mas joven de todas.
In fact, she was the youngest student of all.
she has a class tomorrow evening and then it will be the only one she will have had all week between the MLK holiday and snow.
White Room is still one of my favorite heavy tunes...
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