All 10 Uses of
symposium
in
The Lovely Bones
- At the statewide Gifted Symposium each summer, the gifted kids from seventh to ninth grade would get together for a four-week retreat to, as I always thought of it, hang out in the trees and pick one another's brains.
Chpt 10 *symposium = a gathering to exchange ideas on related topics
- She was gifted, one of the twenty students from his school who had been selected for the statewide Gifted Symposium.†
Chpt 2
- "Beside Her Now," and her favorite—the one she was most proud of and carried with her to the symposium folded and refolded so often that the creases were close to cuts—"The Lip of the Grave."†
Chpt 10
- Ruth had to be driven to the symposium because that morning, when the bus was leaving, she was still at home with an acute attack of gastritis.†
Chpt 10
- Her father drove her first to the hospital at three A.M. and then to the symposium, stopping home on the way to pick up the bag her mother had packed and left at the end of their driveway.†
Chpt 10
- She had made a big stink about no meat at home and she had to hold to it, but no one at the symposium knew of the oath she'd sworn.†
Chpt 10
- The last week of the symposium was always spent developing a final project, which the various schools would present in competition on the night before the parents returned to pick the students up.†
Chpt 10
- It became common knowledge at the symposium who my sister was and how I had died.†
Chpt 10
- My brother, the only child, what with my sister attending the symposium, was like a rock with a sheet pulled up over him.†
Chpt 11
- Ruth knew her status as a freak at school and knew that their one night at the gifted symposium had been exactly what it felt like—a dream, where elements let loose came together unbidden outside the damning rules of school.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(symposium) a gathering to discuss a specific subjectSymposiums typically have shared and breakout sessions in which individuals or panels of experts address audiences.
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, a symposium can denote a collection of essays.
In ancient Greece, a symposium was a drinking party that usually included entertainment and philosophical conversation.