meeting
nounEtymology
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.
- inherited from *mōtijandz✻
- inherited from mētende
- inherited from metynge
Definitions
The act of persons or things that meet.
- Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.
A gathering of persons for a purpose
A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
- We need to have a meeting about that soon.
- In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.
The people at such a gathering.
- What has the meeting decided.
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An encounter between people, even accidental.
- They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
A place or instance of junction or intersection
A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
- Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
- You use ta give a good meetin'. I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
- Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
present participle and gerund of meet
The neighborhood
- synonymassembly
- synonymconvocation
- synonymgathering
- synonymmeet-up
- synonymrendezvous
- neighborannual general meeting
- neighborboard meeting
- neighborfringe meeting
- neighbormonthly meeting
- neighborprayer meeting
- neighborrace meeting
Derived
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 · +12 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at meeting. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at meeting. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at meeting
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA