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a person who attends or participates in a symposium.
Origin:
1650–60; orig. < assumed Greek *symposiastḗs, derivative of symposiázein to drink together (with agentive suffix -tēs), verbal derivative of symposíon drinking party (see symposium); in recent use probably recoinage: symposi(um) + -ast
1650–60; orig. < assumed Greek *symposiastḗs, derivative of symposiázein to drink together (with agentive suffix -tēs), verbal derivative of symposíon drinking party (see symposium); in recent use probably recoinage: symposi(um) + -ast
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