session

Other forms of session

plural

sessions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about session

What does session mean?

session means "a meeting for execution of a group's functions". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in session?

session has 2 syllables: ses-sion. The stress falls on "ses". In IPA it is /ˈsɛʃən/.

What is another word for session?

Close synonyms include school term, academic term, academic session, seance, sitting. 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 session a common word?

session is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with session?

9 words rhyme with session. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.