discussion section

1. 1.

   a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately

   “a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course”

   Synonymssection

   Broaderclass

Questions about discussion section

What does discussion section mean?

discussion section means "a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately".

What is another word for discussion section?

Close synonyms include section. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is discussion section a common word?

discussion section is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.