GROUP DISCUSSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does group discussion mean? 

• GROUP DISCUSSION (noun)
  The noun GROUP DISCUSSION has 1 sense:

1. a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic

  Familiarity information: GROUP DISCUSSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUP DISCUSSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

conference; group discussion

Hypernyms ("group discussion" is a kind of...):

discussion; give-and-take; word (an exchange of views on some topic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "group discussion"):

bull session (an informal discussion (usually among men))

colloquy (a conversation especially a formal one)

consultation (a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question)

audience; consultation; interview (a conference (usually with someone important))

huddle; powwow ((informal) a quick private conference)

news conference; press conference (a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity)

pretrial; pretrial conference ((law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases)

round-table conference; round table; roundtable (a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views)

session (a meeting for execution of a group's functions)

teach-in (an extended session (as on a college campus) for lectures and discussion on an important and usually controversial issue)

teleconference; teleconferencing (a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television)