English Explanatory Dictionary

meeting

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of persons or things that meet.
  2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
  3. The people at such a gathering.
  4. An encounter between people, even accidental.
  5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
  6. A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
  7. An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of meet

Pronunciation

/ˈmiːtɪŋ/ /ˈmitɪŋ/ [ˈmiɾɪŋ] en-us-meeting.ogg

Word forms

meeting meetings

Etymology

From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.

Synonyms

assembly convocation gathering meet-up rendezvous powwow

Derived words

approximeeting area meeting board meeting captive audience meeting counter-meeting countermeeting e-meeting experience meeting extraordinary general meeting fanmeeting field meeting flag meeting go-to-meeting kick-off meeting kick off meeting kickoff meeting meetinghouse meeting house meetingitis Meeting Lake meetingless meetinglike meeting of the mindless meeting of the minds meeting of minds meeting place meeting recovery syndrome meeting room meeting seed merrymeeting merry-meeting midmeeting mismeeting monster meeting nonmeeting overflow meeting postmeeting premeeting revival meeting select meeting shareholders' meeting stand-up meeting submeeting Sunday-go-to-meeting Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes telemeeting tent meeting tone meeting town meeting unmeeting virtual meeting watch meeting
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