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COLLOQUIUM (colloquia)

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• COLLOQUIUM (noun)
The noun COLLOQUIUM has 2 senses:

1. 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

Familiarity information: COLLOQUIUM used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• COLLOQUIUM (noun)

Sense 1

colloquium ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("colloquium" is a kind of...):

conference (a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colloquium"):

research colloquium (a colloquium at which the results of (scientific) research are reported)

Sense 2

colloquium ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

An address to an academic meeting or seminar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("colloquium" is a kind of...):

address; speech (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)

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