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symposion

symposion noun: a drinking together; a symposium.

Noun

symposion

  1. (historical) A drinking together; a symposium.
    • Captain Waverley,—my young and esteemed friend, Mr Falconer of Balmawhapple, has craved of my age and experience, as of one not wholly unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello or monomachia, to be his interlocutor in expressing to you the regret with which he calls to remembrance...1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], “Repentance, and a Reconciliation”, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable...
    • The imagery is that of marriage, the iconographic theme was borrowed from the banquet, but these divine couples are not participating in a symposion.2011, Pauline Schmitt Pantel, “Dionysos, the Banquet and Gender”, in Renate Schlesier, editor, A Different God? Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism, De Gruyter, →ISBN, section “Dionysiac Realms in...

Origin of symposion

Borrowed from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion).

Questions about symposion

What does symposion mean?
Symposion means a drinking together; a symposium.
What part of speech is symposion?
Symposion is a noun.

Words near symposion in the dictionary

  1. symposiarchs
  2. symposiast
  3. symposiastic
  4. symposiastically
  5. symposiasts
  6. symposion
  7. symposium
  8. symposiums
  9. sympotic
  10. sympotical
  11. sympotically

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