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/se.ɑ̃s/
Translation
session, sitting; a screening
Word origin
From Old French seoir ('to sit'), from Latin sedere ('to sit'), so a séance is literally a sitting. English borrowed the word in the narrow sense of a spiritualist sitting, which is not the ordinary French meaning.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- sedere
- English cognates
- seance, session, sedentary
Grammar
Examples
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The eight o'clock screening is already sold out.
' prescrit kinésithérapie.
The doctor prescribed me ten physiotherapy sessions.
municipal .
The town council sitting lasted three hours.
au ?
Shall we meet at the cafe after the screening?
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The chairman opened the session at nine o'clock sharp.
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