conference
See also: Conference and conférence
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French conférence, from Medieval Latin cōnferentia, from Latin cōnferēns.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒnf(ə)ɹəns/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnf(ə)ɹəns/, [ˈkʰɑɱ.fɹəns], [ˈkʰɑɱ.fɹn̩s]
Noun edit
conference (plural conferences)
- The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Nor with such free and friendly conference / As he hath used of old.
- 1850, T. S. Arthur, “Seed Time and Harvest”, in Sketches of Life and Character[1], Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 129:
- Mr. Wiley, a lawyer of some ability, was sitting in his office one day, when an elderly gentleman came in and asked to have a few words of conference with him.
- (politics) A multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
- (sciences) A formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.
- (business) An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue, such as a new product, market trend or government regulation, with a range of speakers.
- (sports) A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
- (Philippines, sports) A constituent tournament of a sports league in a given season.
- (obsolete) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- helps and furtherances which […] the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford
- (Methodist Church) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
- A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
Derived terms edit
- audioconference
- conference call
- conferencee
- conferencegoer
- conference-goer
- conference interpreter
- conference interpreting
- conferencelike
- conference matrix
- conferencer
- conference room
- conference table
- conferencewide
- consensus conference
- cyberconference
- interconference
- intraconference
- junk conference
- megaconference
- multiconference
- news conference
- nonconference
- preconference
- predatory conference
- press conference
- science by press conference
- Scoutmaster conference
- spamference
- status conference
- subconference
- superconference
- teleconference
- telephone conference
- traffic conference area
- unconference
- videoconference
- video conference
- web conference
Translations edit
a meeting of people
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Verb edit
conference (third-person singular simple present conferences, present participle conferencing, simple past and past participle conferenced)
- (transitive, intransitive, education) To assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.
- 2009, Jennifer Berne, The Writing-Rich High School Classroom:
- The students who were conferenced on paper 1 will get a written response to paper 2, and those who received a written response to paper 1 will be conferenced on paper 2.