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séance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun séance has 1 sense
- seance(n = noun.group) session, sitting - a meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor" has parts: spirit rapping, table rapping, table tapping, table lifting, table tilting, table tipping, table turning
is a kind of get together, meeting
OXFORD DICTIONARY
séance, n. (also s{eacute}ance) a meeting at which spiritualists attempt to make contact with the dead.
Etymology
F s{eacute}ance f. OF seoir f. L sedere sit
THESAURUS
séance
assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, audience, ball, bargaining, bargaining session, brawl, caucus, colloquium, commission, committee, conclave, concourse, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congregation, congress, consultation, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, council fire, council of war, dance, date, diet, discussion, eisteddfod, exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, festivity, fete, forgathering, forum, gathering, get-together, high-level talk, housewarming, huddle, interchange of views, interview, levee, mediumism, meet, meeting, necromancy, negotiations, news conference, palaver, panel, parley, party, plenum, pourparler, powwow, press conference, prom, quorum, rally, reception, rendezvous, session, shindig, sit-in, sitting, soiree, spirit, spiritism, spiritualism, summit, summit conference, summitry, symposium, synod, turnoutROGET THESAURUS
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Council
N council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative.
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