colloquium
/kəˈɫoʊkwiəm/
An academic conference or seminar
colloquium in a sentence
“The department hosted a colloquium on modern physics.”
Origin of colloquium
From Latin colloquium (conversation, conference), from colloqui (to talk together), from col- (together) + loqui (to speak)
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