lecturenoun
I attended the seminars for two months.
I have a seminar to attend before lunch.
I've already missed five seminars this month through ill-health.
She gave a brilliant seminar on Dickens.
I went to most of my seminars at university though I skipped one or two of the lectures.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Classes & courses
academic year
access course
advanced
Advanced Placement
asynchronous
field trip
foundation course
grade retention
grind
homework
HyFlex
immersion course
non-class
non-degree
on a course
open admissions
prep
the national curriculum
work placement
workshop

seminar | American Dictionary

seminar
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsem·əˌnɑr/
a meeting of a group of people with a teacher or expert for training, discussion, or study on a particular subject:
Police officers attended a seminar on relieving rush-hour traffic jams.

seminar | Business English

seminar
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈsemɪnɑːr/us
an occasion when a teacher or expert and a group of people meet to study and discuss something:
conduct/give/hold a seminar
The delegates attended a seminar last week.
a business/training seminar

Examples of seminar

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These phases could have been used as an organising principle for the themes of the seminars.
This session provided valuable feedback for each group that inevitably helped with preparation for the assessed seminars.
It would also be useful as a collection of papers for graduate seminars.
It echoes still today, not only in disputations, but also and especially in academic seminars, supposedly.
All have centres that organize seminars, film screenings, lectures, and international exchanges with fellow artists and intellectuals.
The seminar quietly finessed the definitional question, not without a few polite demurs.
One year he even posted guards at the doors of the seminar room to keep uninvited people out.
These seminars are open to all members of the institution, professional staff, administrative staff, and voluntary workers.
Every two years its programme of jury-selected performances and seminars is held in a different city.
A curriculum pearl should explain and justify the development of an entire computing curriculum or a course (seminar, workshop).
Each chapter can pretty much stand on its own and would be easily extracted for topical reading in a graduate seminar.
Selected topics could be worked through individually or as part of a seminar or advanced course.
This paper explores the response of individuals to financial education seminars.
In particular, it examines how these students author their identities as literacy teachers within the context of a mediated seminar setting.
We also found that a considerable number of the participating patients had indicated that they would like to be invited to the seminars.
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