session

See also: Session

English

Etymology

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʃən/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛʃən
• Homophone: cession

Noun

session (plural sessions)

1. A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.

   a training session

   "Are we having a recording session?" / "Yes. We've even got some session musicians to provide some brass."

   • 2009, Michael Otto; Stefan G. Hofmann, Avoiding Treatment Failures in the Anxiety Disorders, page 137:

     Alternatively, if the patient is stuck ritualizing before session, then the therapist might want to create contingencies that might help the patient come in on time

2. A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.

   This court is now in session.

3. (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

   Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.

4. (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
5. (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page):

     So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.

   • 1859–1885, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien:

     But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, […] / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood.

6. (music) Ellipsis of jam session
7. (education) An academic term
8. (beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.

Hyponyms

• bull session

Derived terms

• parasession
• sesh
• sessionize
• sessionless
• session musician
• session-replicated

Related terms

• session ale
• session beer
• session bitter

 

Translations

period devoted to a particular activity

• Arabic: جَلْسَة‎ f (jalsa)
• Armenian: նստաշրջան (hy) (nstašrǰan), սեանս (hy) (seans)
• Belarusian: сэ́сія f (sésija), се́сія f (sjésija), сеа́нс m (sjeáns)
• Bulgarian: се́сия (bg) f (sésija)
• Catalan: sessió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 會期 (zh), 会期 (zh) (huìqī)

• Czech: sezení (cs) n
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: sessie (nl) f
• Esperanto: sesio, seanco
• Estonian: istung, seanss
• Finnish: istunto (fi)
• French: séance (fr) f
• Georgian: სესია (sesia)
• German: Sitzung (de) f
• Greek: συνεδρίαση (el) f (synedríasi)
• Haitian Creole: sesyon
• Hebrew: יְשִׁיבָה‎ (he) f (y'shivá)
• Hungarian: ülés (hu), alkalom (hu), összejövetel (hu), találkozó (hu), foglalkozás (hu), megbeszélés (hu)

• Irish: seisiún m
• Italian: sessione (it) f, tornata (it) f, seduta (it) f
• Japanese: 会期 (かいき, kaiki)
• Khmer: សម័យប្រជុំ (sa’may prɑcum)
• Korean: 회기 (hoegi)
• Maori: tūnga, wātū
• Persian: نشست‎ (fa) (nešast)
• Plautdietsch: Sitz m
• Polish: sesja (pl) f, seans (pl) m
• Portuguese: sessão (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: се́ссия (ru) f (séssija), сеа́нс (ru) m (seáns)
• Scottish Gaelic: seisean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: sesija (sh) f

• Spanish: sesión (es) f
• Swedish: session (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: се́сія (uk) f (sésija), сеа́нс m (seáns)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: sesiwn (cy) f

meeting of a body to conduct business

• Arabic: دَوْرَة‎ (ar) f (dawra)
• Armenian: նիստ (hy) (nist)
• Belarusian: сэ́сія f (sésija), се́сія f (sjésija), пасяджэ́нне n (pasjadžénnje)
• Bulgarian: се́сия (bg) f (sésija), заседа́ние (bg) n (zasedánie)
• Catalan: sessió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 會議 (zh), 会议 (zh) (huìyì)

• Czech: zasedání (cs) n
• Dutch: zitting (nl) f
• Finnish: istunto (fi), kokous (fi)
• French: session (fr) f
• Georgian: სესია (sesia)
• German: Sitzung (de) f
• Greek: σύνοδος (el) f (sýnodos)
• Hindi: अधिवेशन (hi) m (adhiveśan)
• Hungarian: ülés (hu), ülésezés, ülésszak (hu)
• Irish: suí m
• Italian: sessione (it) f
• Japanese: 会議 (ja) (かいぎ, kaigi)
• Khmer: សម័យប្រជុំ (sa’may prɑcum)

• Korean: 회의 (ko) (hoe'ui)
• Lithuanian: posėdis m
• Maori: tūnga, nohoanga
• Persian: نشست‎ (fa) (nešast), همایش‎ (fa) (hamâyeš)
• Polish: sesja (pl) f, posiedzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: sessão (pt) f
• Romanian: ședință (ro) f
• Russian: се́ссия (ru) f (séssija), заседа́ние (ru) n (zasedánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: coinneamh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сједница, састанак, сесија, засједање

  Roman: sjednica (sh), sastanak (sh), sesija (sh), zasjedanje (sh)

• Slovak: zasadanie n
• Spanish: sesión (es) f
• Thai: การประชุม (th) (gaan-bprà-chum)
• Turkish: oturum (tr)
• Ukrainian: се́сія (uk) f (sésija), засі́дання n (zasídannja)
• Uzbek: yigʻilish (uz), majlis (uz)
• Vietnamese: phiên họp

(computing) the sequence of interactions between client and server

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通信期 (tōngxìn qī)

• Finnish: istunto (fi)
• French: session (fr) f

• Greek: συνεδρία (el) f (synedría)
• Hungarian: munkamenet (hu)
• Portuguese: sessão (pt) f
• Russian: се́ссия (ru) f (séssija)
• Scottish Gaelic: seisean m
• Turkish: oturum (tr)

Verb

session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)

1. (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
   • 2009 May 3, Virginia Heffernan, “World Music”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said.

Anagrams

• essoins, osseins

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Finnish

Noun

session

1. Genitive singular form of sessio.

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French

Etymology

From Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessiō, sessiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

session f (plural sessions)

1. session, period
2. (computing) session

Related terms

• seoir

Further reading

• “session” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessiō, sessiōnem.

Noun

session f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)

1. sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.)

Descendants

• French: session
• → Middle English: session
  • English: session