# session

Pronunciation: say "SESH-uhn" US /ˈsɛʃən/, UK /ˈsɛʃ(ə)n/

## Noun

1. A period of time set aside for a particular activity.
   - Simple: A period of time used for one activity, such as practice or study.
   - _The coach scheduled an extra training session before the match._
   - _Each therapy session focuses on a different goal._
2. An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body for conducting business, such as a legislature's yearly periods of work.
   - Simple: An official meeting, or a period of work, of a court, council, or group of lawmakers.
   - _Parliament opened its new session with a formal address._
   - _The judge called the court back into session after the recess._
3. The period during which a user is connected to a system, covering the sequence of interactions between client and server.
   - Simple: The time during which you are logged in or connected to a website or program.
   - _The server stores each user's session in a temporary cookie._
   - _After ten minutes of inactivity, the session expires automatically._
4. An informal gathering or performance at which musicians play together, especially in folk music; short for jam session.
   - Simple: Short form of jam session. Used especially for informal folk music get-togethers.
   - _Local musicians host a traditional session every Thursday evening._
   - _She brought her banjo to the session and played for hours._
6. An academic term or semester, or the school year as a whole.
   - Simple: A term or semester at a school or college, or sometimes the whole school year.
   - _The university admits new students at the start of each session._
   - _Final exams fall at the end of the spring session._
7. Any of the three scheduled two-hour playing periods in a day's cricket, running from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea, and from tea to the close of play.
   - Simple: One of the three parts of a day's cricket play, each usually two hours long.
   - _The bowlers dominated the morning session, taking four wickets._
   - _Both teams went into the final session evenly matched._
8. An extended period of drinking alcohol, usually with others. *(colloquial, UK, Ireland)*
   - Simple: A long time spent drinking alcohol, usually with friends.
   - _Friends gathered for an afternoon session at the brewery._
   - _He paced himself through the long session by sticking to weaker beer._
9. The sitting of a person, or the fact of being in a seated position.
   - Simple: The act of sitting down, or the state of being seated.

## Verb

5. To take part in an informal, improvised performance with other musicians.
   - Simple: To play music together with other musicians in a relaxed, unplanned way.
   - _Traveling with her fiddle through the west of Ireland, she would session in a different pub almost every night._
   - _The visiting accordion player sessioned with the regulars until closing time, picking up reels he had never heard before._

## Other meanings

- (noun) The ruling body of a Presbyterian congregation, made up of the pastor and the elders.

## Origin

The word came into Middle English from Old French session, which came from Latin sessiō ("a sitting"), based on sedeō ("to sit").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/session (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).