symposiast


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sym·po·si·ast

 (sĭm-pō′zē-ăst′, -əst)
n.
A participant in a symposium.
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symposiast

(sɪmˈpəʊzɪˌæst)
n
(Education) a person who takes part in a symposium
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sym•po•si•ast

(sɪmˈpoʊ ziˌæst, -əst)

n.
a person who attends or participates in a symposium.
[1650–60; orig. < assumed Greek *symposiastḗs, derivative of symposiázein to drink together]
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symposiast Rare.

a person participating in a symposium.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.symposiast - someone who participates in a symposium
attendee, meeter, attendant, attender - a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees"
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Our sources are frustratingly uninterested in that question; rather, they ask how a male symposiast's behavior is to be interpreted.
He returned to New York City that summer to be a symposiast in the American Psychological Association (APA) program honouring Harry Dexter Kitson, Donald Super's mentor.
In any case, from my fellow symposiast's point of view, a visual artwork is simply something good to look at, perhaps an embodiment of beauty.
Although Peter would frequently serve as a guest professor and was an indefatigable symposiast and speaker at conferences in many countries, the University of Minnesota was to remain his lifelong home, a genuine Wahlheimat.
By yet another coincidence, Fahmi turned out to have been a student of Nusseibeh's at Birzeit University during the tumultuous years of the first intifada in the 1980s and 1990s, as had his friend (and our fellow symposiast) Issam Nassar, Associate Professor of History at Illinois State University and Co-Editor of Jerusalem Quarterly.
Shapiro makes the hero also a drinking companion of undepicted mortals, a fellow symposiast. The specific inclusion of his mortal mother serves to shorten the distance between the hero and his mortal parasitoi.
(60) While Neer focuses attention on the impossible self-elevation of the low-status individual who situates himself in the elitist space of his vase, others suggest that the artist who portrays himself, or one of his kind, as an athlete, symposiast, or high-class pupil engages in a form of self-parody: much like the hired entertainers and parasites at the symposium, and the misshapen, fat dancers who 'perform themselves' by displaying their grotesque anatomies and flaunt upper-class decorum on contemporary komast vases, (61) the painter assumes a persona that offers symposiasts an object of derision from outside their exclusive company.
Unlike the other symposiasts, Alcibiades does not make a speech about the nature of eros but declares his particular and personal love for Socrates: "Alcibiades, asked to speak about eros, talks about one person.

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