Definition of: session

(sesh′ən) noun
1. The sitting together of a legislative assembly, court, etc., for the transaction of business.
2. A single meeting or series of meetings of an assembly, court, or other body, for conducting business.
3. The governing body of a Presbyterian Church congregation.
4. In some educational institutions, a term.
5. Law The term for which a court or legislative body sits continuously for the transaction of business.
6. plural The sitting of a certain court: the quarter–sessions; and in the United States, the Court of Sessions, a court of criminal jurisdiction; any one of certain courts, especially in England: general session, petty sessions.
7. Obs. The act of sitting, or the state of one who is seated. ♦ Homophone: cession. [<F <L sessio, -onis <sessus, pp. of sedere sit]
—ses′sion·al adjective
—ses′sion·al·ly adverb