symposium

1. 1.

   a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations

   Broaderconference

Other forms of symposium

plural

symposia

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 symposium

What does symposium mean?

symposium means "a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations".

How many syllables are in symposium?

symposium has 4 syllables: sym-po-si-um. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /sɪmˈpoʊziəm/.

Is symposium a common word?

symposium is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.