session

See also: Session

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĕshˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ -ən
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛʃən
• Homophone: cession

Noun

session (plural sessions)

1. A period of time devoted to a particular activity.

   counseling session

   a training session

   jam session

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

   • 2009, Michael Otto with 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. An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body to conduct its business; e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislature (that together comprise the legislative term), whose individual meetings are also called sessions.

   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. (chiefly obsolete or theology) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

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

   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 137–138:

     But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, / And hearing 'harlot' mutter'd twice or thrice, / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood, / Stiff as a viper frozen; […]

6. (music) Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
7. (education) An academic term; semester; school year.
8. (beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
9. (Presbyterianism) The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.

Hyponyms

• bull session

Derived terms

• birds-of-a-feather session
• breakout session
• buzz session
• cram session
• extraordinary session
• first session
• foley session
• galah session
• in session
• kirk-session
• legislative session
• parasession
• plenary session
• poster session
• punch-up session
• quarter session
• second session
• sesh
• session ale
• session band
• session bean
• session beer
• session bitter
• session data
• session fixation
• session hijacking
• sessionize
• session laws
• sessionless
• session musician
• session-replicated
• skull session
• special session
• struggle session
• third session

Descendants

• → Japanese: セッション (sesshon)
• → Korean: 세션 (sesyeon)
• → Scottish Gaelic: seisean

Translations

period devoted to a particular activity

• Albanian: sesion (sq) m
• Arabic: جَلْسَة f (jalsa)
• Aragonese: sesión f
• Armenian: նստաշրջան (hy) (nstašrǰan), սեանս (hy) (seans)
• Asturian: sesión f
• Basque: saio (eu)
• Belarusian: сэ́сія f (sésija), се́сія f (sjésija), сеа́нс m (sjeáns)
• Bulgarian: се́сия (bg) f (sésija)
• Catalan: sessió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 會期 / 会期 (wui⁶ kei⁴)

  Hokkien: 會期 / 会期 (zh-min-nan) (hōe-kî)

  Mandarin: 會期 / 会期 (zh) (huìqī)

• Czech: sezení (cs) n
• Danish: session (da) c
• Dutch: sessie (nl) f
• Esperanto: sesio, seanco
• Estonian: istung, seanss, sessioon
• Finnish: istunto (fi)
• French: séance (fr) f
• Galician: sesión f
• Georgian: სესია (sesia)
• German: Sitzung (de) f, Session (de) f
• Greek: συνεδρίαση (el) f (synedríasi)
• Haitian Creole: sesyon
• Hebrew: יְשִׁיבָה (he) f (y'shivá)
• Hindi: अधिवेशन (hi) m (adhiveśan)
• Hungarian: ülés (hu), alkalom (hu), összejövetel (hu), találkozó (hu), foglalkozás (hu), megbeszélés (hu)
• Indonesian: sesi (id)
• Irish: seisiún m
• Italian: sessione (it) f, tornata (it) f, seduta (it) f
• Japanese: 会期 (ja) (かいき, kaiki)
• Khmer: សម័យប្រជុំ (saʼmay prɑcum)
• Korean: 회기(會期) (hoegi)
• Latvian: sesija f
• Lithuanian: sesija f
• Macedonian: сесија f (sesija)
• Malay: penggal (ms), sesyen
• Maltese: sessjoni f
• Maori: tūnga, wātū
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sesjon m

• Occitan: passada (oc), ^{(please verify)} sàssic, ^{(please verify)} sassigada
• Ottoman Turkish: مجلس (meclis)
• Persian: نشست (fa) (nešast)
• Plautdietsch: Sitz m
• Polish: sesja (pl) f, seans (pl) m
• Portuguese: sessão (pt) f
• Romanian: sesiune (ro) f
• Russian: се́ссия (ru) f (séssija), сеа́нс (ru) m (seáns)
• Scottish Gaelic: seisean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сѐсија f

  Roman: sèsija (sh) f

• Slovak: sedenie n
• Slovene: seja f
• Spanish: sesión (es) f
• Swedish: session (sv) c
• Turkish: celse (tr), seans (tr), oturum (tr)
• Ukrainian: се́сія (uk) f (sésija), сеа́нс m (seáns)
• Uzbek: sessiya (uz)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: seyance (wa)
• Welsh: sesiwn (cy) f

meeting of a body to conduct business

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

  Mandarin: 會議 / 会议 (zh) (huìyì)

• Czech: zasedání (cs) n
• Danish: session (da) c, møde (da) n
• Dutch: zitting (nl) f, sessie (nl) f
• Esperanto: kunveno
• Estonian: sessioon, istung
• Faroese: fundur
• Finnish: istunto (fi), kokous (fi)
• French: session (fr) f
• Galician: sesión f
• Georgian: სესია (sesia)
• German: Sitzung (de) f, Session (de) f, Tagung (de) f
• Greek: σύνοδος (el) f (sýnodos), συνεδρίαση (el) f (synedríasi)
• Hindi: अधिवेशन (hi) m (adhiveśan), सम्मेलन (hi) m (sammelan), सभा (hi) f (sabhā), बैठक (hi) f (baiṭhak)
• Hungarian: ülés (hu), ülésezés (hu), ülésszak (hu)
• Indonesian: sési (id)
• Irish: suí m
• Italian: sessione (it) f
• Japanese: 会議 (ja) (かいぎ, kaigi)
• Khmer: សម័យប្រជុំ (saʼmay prɑcum)
• Korean: 회의(會議) (ko) (hoe'ui)
• Latvian: sēde f, sesija f
• Lithuanian: posėdis m
• Macedonian: седница f (sednica), заседание n (zasedanie), сесија f (sesija)
• Maori: tūnga, nohoanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: samling (no) m or f, møte (no) n, sesjon m

• Old French: session f
• Ottoman Turkish: مجلس (meclis)
• Persian: نشست (fa) (nešast), همایش (fa) (hamâyeš)
• Polish: sesja (pl) f, posiedzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: sessão (pt) f
• Romanian: ședință (ro) f, sesie (ro) f, sesiune (ro) f
• Russian: се́ссия (ru) f (séssija), заседа́ние (ru) n (zasedánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: coinneamh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: се̏дница f, сје̏дница f, са̀станак m, сѐсија f, засе́да̄ње n, засје́да̄ње n

  Roman: sȅdnica (sh) f, sjȅdnica (sh) f, sàstanak (sh) m, sèsija (sh) f, zasédānje (sh) n, zasjédānje (sh) n

• Slovak: zasadanie n
• Slovene: zasedanje n, seja f
• Spanish: sesión (es) f
• Swahili: mkutano (sw)
• Swedish: session (sv) c, möte (sv) n
• Thai: การประชุม (th) (gaan-bprà-chum)
• Turkish: oturum (tr), toplantı (tr), celse (tr)
• Ukrainian: се́сія (uk) f (sésija), засі́дання (uk) n (zasídannja)
• Uzbek: yigʻilish (uz), majlis (uz)
• Vietnamese: phiên họp
• Walloon: seyance (wa)

(computing) the sequence of interactions between client and server

• Aragonese: sesión f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 會話 / 会话 (zh) (huìhuà)

• Finnish: istunto (fi), sessio (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
• Spanish: sesión (es) f
• 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

Finnish

Noun

session

1. genitive singular of sessio

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.sjɔ̃/ ~ /se.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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessiō, sessiōnem.

Noun

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

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

Descendants

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

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessiō.

Noun

session c

1. a session (period with meetings, or training sessions and the like by extension)

   vara i session

   be in session

2. a session (meeting)

Declension

Declension of session

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	session	sessions
	definite	sessionen	sessionens
plural	indefinite	sessioner	sessioners
	definite	sessionerna	sessionernas

Derived terms

• höstsession
• jamsession
• sessionssal
• vårsession

References

• session in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• session in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• session in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)