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press conference

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A question-and-answer session with members of television, print and other media.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: media

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: news conference, presser

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: news conference

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: conference, group discussion

Narrower terms: backgrounder

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Across languages

Translations

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: perskonferensie — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Arabic: مُؤْتَمَر صَحَفِيّ (muʔtamar ṣaḥafiyy) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Armenian: մամլո ասուլիս (mamlo asulis) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Armenian: ճեպազրույց (čepazruycʻ) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Azerbaijani: mətbuat konfransı — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Belarusian: прэс-канферэ́нцыя (pres-kanfjeréncyja) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Belarusian: прэ́савая канфэрэ́нцыя (présavaja kanferéncyja) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Bulgarian: пресконфере́нция (preskonferéncija) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Catalan: conferència de premsa — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Catalan: roda de premsa — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Chinese Mandarin: 新聞發佈會 /新闻发布会 (xīnwén fābùhuì) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Chinese Mandarin: 記者會 /记者会 (jìzhěhuì) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Czech: tisková konference — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Czech: tiskovka — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Danish: pressekonference — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Danish: pressemøde — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Dutch: persconferentie — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Esperanto: gazetara konferenco — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Esperanto: gazetarkonferenco — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Estonian: pressikonverents — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Finnish: lehdistötilaisuus — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • French: conférence de presse — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Georgian: პრესკონფერენცია (ṗresḳonperencia) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • German: Pressekonferenz — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • German: Nachrichtenkonferenz — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Greek: συνέντευξη τύπου (synéntefxi týpou) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Hebrew: מסיבת עיתונאים \ מְסִבַּת עִתּוֹנָאִים (m'sibát-itona'ím) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Hindi: पत्रकार सम्मेलन (patrakār sammelan) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Hungarian: sajtótájékoztató — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Hungarian: sajtóértekezlet — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Indonesian: konferensi — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Indonesian: jumpa — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Italian: conferenza stampa — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Japanese: 記者会見 (kisha kaiken) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Kazakh: баспасөз мәслихаты (baspasöz mäslixaty) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Kazakh: баспасөз конференциясы (baspasöz konferensiäsy) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Kazakh: пресс-конференция (press-konferensiä) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Korean: 기자회견 (gijahoegyeon) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Kyrgyz: пресс-конференция (press-konferentsiya) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Latvian: preses konference — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Lithuanian: spaudos konferencija — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Macedonian: прес-конференција (pres-konferencija) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Māori: hui pāpāho — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pressekonferanse — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: pressekonferanse — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Persian: نشست خبری (nešast-e xabari) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Persian: نشست رسانهای (nešast-e resâna-ye) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Persian: کنفرانس مطبوعاتی (konferâns-e matbu'âti) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Polish: konferencja prasowa — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Portuguese: entrevista coletiva — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Portuguese: coletiva de imprensa — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Romanian: conferință de presă — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Russian: пресс-конфере́нция (press-konferéncija) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Russian: прессу́ха (pressúxa) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Serbo-Croatian: прес-конференција — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Serbo-Croatian: новинска конференција — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Serbo-Croatian: тисковна конференција — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Serbo-Croatian: pres-konferencija — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Serbo-Croatian: novinska konferencija — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Serbo-Croatian: tiskovna konferencija — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Slovak: tlačová konferencia — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Slovak: tlačovka — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Slovene: novinarska konferenca — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Spanish: conferencia de prensa — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Spanish: rueda de prensa — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Swedish: presskonferens — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Swedish: pressträff — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Tagalog: pulong-balitaan — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Tajik: конференсияи матбуотӣ (konferensiya-yi matbuoti) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Thai: การแถลงข่าว (gaan-tà-lɛ̌ɛng-kàao) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Turkish: basın konferansı — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Turkish: basın toplantısı — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Ukrainian: прес-конфере́нція (pres-konferéncija) — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Uzbek: matbuot konferensiyasi — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Uzbek: press-konferensiya — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media
  • Vietnamese: họp báo — question and answer session with members of television, print and other media