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COLLOQUIUM
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Irregular inflected form: colloquia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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)
