# session
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈsɛʃ(ə)n/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛʃən
* Homophone: cession

### Noun

session (plural sessions)
* A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
    a training session
    "Are we having a recording session?" / "Yes. We've even got some session musicians to provide some brass."
** 2009, Michael Otto with Stefan G. Hofmann, Avoiding Treatment Failures in the Anxiety Disorders, page 137:Alternatively, if the patient is stuck ritualizing before session, then the therapist might want to create contingencies that might help the patient come in on time
* A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.
    This court is now in session.
* (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
    Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.
* (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
* (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
** 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.
** 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 137–138:But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, / And hearing 'harlot' mutter'd twice or thrice, / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood, / Stiff as a viper frozen; […]
* (music) Ellipsis of jam session., used in isolate particularly for folk music.
* (education) An academic term
* (beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.

#### Hyponyms

* bull session

#### Derived terms

* birds-of-a-feather session
* breakout session
* buzz session
* cram session
* extraordinary session
* first session
* foley session
* galah session
* in session
* kirk-session
* legislative session
* parasession
* plenary session
* poster session
* punch-up session
* quarter session
* second session
* sesh
* session ale
* session band
* session bean
* session beer
* session bitter
* session data
* session fixation
* session hijacking
* sessionize
* session laws
* sessionless
* session musician
* session-replicated
* skull session
* special session
* struggle session
* third session

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: セッション (sesshon)
* → Korean: 세션 (sesyeon)
* → Scottish Gaelic: seisean

#### Translations
### Verb

session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)
* (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
** 2009 May 3, Virginia Heffernan, “World Music”, in New York Times‎:“I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said.

### Anagrams

* essoins, osseins

## Finnish
### Noun

session
* genitive singular of sessio

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛ.sjɔ̃/ ~ /se.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

session f (plural sessions)
* session, period
* (computing) session

#### Related terms

* seoir

### Further reading

* “session”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Old French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessiō, sessiōnem.

### Noun

session oblique singular, f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)
* sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.)

#### Descendants

* Middle French: session f
** French: session f
* → Middle English: session
** English: session

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessiō.

### Noun

session c
* a session (period with meetings, or training sessions and the like by extension)
    vara i sessionbe in session
* a session (meeting)

#### Derived terms

* höstsession
* jamsession
* sessionssal
* vårsession

### References

* session in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* session in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* session in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)