Session ˈseʃn Made Two Hour Heavy Drinking Met Closed

• a photo/recording/training, etc. session
• the course is made up of 12 two-hour sessions.
• she has a weekly session at the health club on saturdays.
• two soccer fans plunged to their deaths after a heavy drinking session.

session

1. a period of time that is spent doing a particular activity
• see also jam session
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/jam-session
• a photo/recording/training, etc. session
• The course is made up of 12 two-hour sessions.
• She has a weekly session at the health club on Saturdays.
• Two soccer fans plunged to their deaths after a heavy drinking session.
2. a formal meeting or series of meetings of a court, a parliament, etc.; a period of time when such meetings are held
• see also quarter sessions
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/quarter-sessions
• a session of the UN General Assembly
• The court is now in session.
• The committee met in closed session (= with nobody else present).
• an emergency session of Congress
• the current parliamentary session
3. a school or university year
• See related entries: University life
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/university_life/session_2
4. an occasion when people meet to play music, especially Irish music, in a pub/bar

Extra Examples

• Both sessions are scheduled for 10 o’clock.
• Each session lasted approximately 15 minutes.
• I had a one-to-one session with one of the instructors at the gym.
• The Council met in executive session for the purpose of selecting a new general secretary.
• The Governor called a special session of the Legislature.
• The board met in closed session.
• The case worker will talk to refugees at drop-in sessions and by appointment.
• The college runs training sessions every afternoon.
• The court is now in session.
• The man fell in the canal after a heavy drinking session.
• The president addressed a closed session of Congress.
• The session adopted a resolution on disarmament.
• The statute was approved at the 1985 session of the Texas Legislature.
• a full session of the peace talks
• a plenary session of the committee
• a session on remedial reading
• a stormy session of the European Parliament
• The conference will end with a question and answer session.
• The programme is made up of 12 two-hour sessions.
• The training involves twice-weekly practice sessions.
• Your presentation will be part of the morning session.
• a photo/recording/training session

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin sessio(n-), from sess- ‘seated’, from the verb sedere.