The Collaborative International Dictionary
Debating \De*bat"ing\, n. The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.
Debating society or Debating club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.
Usage examples of "debating society".
In a foreword to the 1932 edition, Wells says that he was motivated by `student discussions in the laboratories and debating society of the Royal College of Science in the eighties'.
He was elected president of the college debating society (an influential body at Exeter) after a faction-fight which gave him his first taste of college politics, a taste that he liked very much.
Maybe you'll have more luck chairing this debating society than I have had.
Vice President, I leave you here to deal with this, this debating society.
I remember being shocked when visiting a university debating society to debate with creationists.
The Young Men's Debating Society was a newly formed branch of the multifarous activity of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.