session Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a meeting for execution of a group's functions
    • it was the opening session of the legislature
  2. noun the time during which a school holds classes
    academic session; school term; academic term.
    • they had to shorten the school term
  3. noun a meeting devoted to a particular activity
    • a filming session
    • a gossip session
  4. noun a meeting of spiritualists
    seance; sitting.
    • the seance was held in the medium's parlor

WordNet

Ses"sion noun
Etymology
L. sessio, fr. sedere, sessum, to sit: cf. F. session. See Sit.
Definitions
  1. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. Archaic
    So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import. Hooker.
    But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood. Tennyson.
  2. The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
    It's fit this royal session do proceed. Shak.
  3. Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.
    It was resolved that the convocation should meet at the beginning of the next session of Parliament. Macaulay.
    ✍ Sessions, in some of the States, is particularly used as a title for a court of justices, held for granting licenses to innkeepers, etc., and for laying out highways, and the like; it is also the title of several courts of criminal jurisdiction in England and the United States.

Webster 1913