Colloquium vs. Symposium

Colloquiumnoun

A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.

Colloquiumnoun

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

Colloquiumnoun

An address to an academic meeting or seminar.

Colloquiumnoun

(legal) That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.

Colloquiumnoun

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

Colloquiumnoun

an address to an academic meeting or seminar

Symposiumnoun

A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.

Symposiumnoun

A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.

Symposiumnoun

A drinking together; a merry feast.

Symposiumnoun

A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; - so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.

Symposiumnoun

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

Symposium

In ancient Greece, the symposium (Greek: συμπόσιον symposion or symposio, from συμπίνειν sympinein, ) was a part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation. Literary works that describe or take place at a symposium include two Socratic dialogues, Plato's Symposium and Xenophon's Symposium, as well as a number of Greek poems such as the elegies of Theognis of Megara.