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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
colloquium
noun
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▪ A few days later, I repeat these words during a faculty colloquium at Brown.
▪ Part of the event are exhibitions of indigenous art and a colloquium on visual anthropology.
▪ The colloquium will raise questions concerning the role that news reporting plays in modern society.
▪ The present essays are papers arising from a colloquium held at Princeton on the fabric of Hagia Sophia and related buildings.
▪ There will be a colloquium on Leonardo's drawings at the close of the exhibition.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
colloquium

early 17c., "conversation, dialogue," from Latin colloquium "conversation" (see colloquy). Also as a legal term; meaning "meeting, assembly, conference, seminar" is attested from 1844.

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colloquium

n. 1 A colloquy; a meeting for discussion. 2 An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting. 3 An address to an academic meeting or seminar. 4 (context legal English) That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.

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colloquium

  1. n. an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting

  2. an address to an academic meeting or seminar

  3. [also: colloquia (pl)]

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Colloquium

Colloquium can refer to:

  • An academic seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting or similarly to a tutorial led by students as is the case in Norway.
  • The Parliament of Scotland, called a "colloquium" in Latin records
  • Any musical piece celebrating birth or distribution of good news, a hymn (antonyms: requiem, coronach)
  • The part of a complaint for defamation in which the plaintiff avers that the defamatory remarks related to him or her

Usage examples of "colloquium".

You find university colloquia in which the speaker has hardly gotten thirty seconds into the talk before there are devastating questions and comments from the audience.

In 1963, my first year of graduate school, I met Leo Szilard at department colloquia, avidly holding forth on his myriad ideas.

Billboards lined the walls, stapled and tacked with colloquia notices, assistantship postings, apartments to share.

All this was clear, and it was doubly clear that no one in the audience prepared for the Colloquia, no one studied for them.

Dyson had an immense reputation as a theoretical physicist and thus was invited to give one of the last spring Colloquia in the UCLJ Physics Department.

Commissions and assignments abounded, invitations to appear on panels, participate in colloquia, write essays, play talking head.

Humanities Center, and various colloquia of the English department at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Because of the time it would inevitably take to organise, a congress that some had called for was never convened, but in compensation there were colloquia, seminars, round-table discussions, some open to the public, others held behind closed doors.

He never heard back from the International Colloquium of Cryptozoologists, and none of the photos ever appeared in print.

International Colloquium of Cryptozoologists, Nancy Derringer had trudged through Himalayan snows for Yeti, plumbed deep-water lakes all over the Americas and the British Isles for surviving plesiosaurs, and penetrated abyssal depths in quest of garagantuan cephalopods.

Crown Prince left no legitimately recognized heir, a Colloquium is summoned by invitation to address the absence of a line of succession to the Throne of the Dark Earth, issued to the Lord and Lady Cymrian, sovereigns of the Alliance to which Sorbold is a sealed ally, as well as rulers of bordering nations, namely His Majesty, King Achmed of Ylorc, Her Majesty, Rhapsody, Queen of Tyrian, Lord Tristan Steward, Regent of Roland, and Viedekam, Administrator of the Nonaligned States as well as representatives of the Church, the Nobility, the Mercantile and the Army, to convene directly after the burial during the Period of Mourning, eleven days hence.

The guidance of the University, he reasoned, was such root pedagogical documents as the Moishianic Code, the Founder's Scroll, the Colloquiums of Enos Enoch, the Footnotes to Sakhyan: they did not of course come from "outside" -- one mustn't overdo the analogy -- but from individual students who had matured and Graduated over the semesters -- from "inside," if I pleased.

Pemulis sometimes treats his group's powwows like a kind of colloquium, sharing personal findings and interests.