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Meeting
Definitions
- 1 The act of persons or things that meet. gerund, uncountable
"Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people."
- 2 the act of joining together as one wordnet
- 3 A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly. countable, uncountable
"We need to have a meeting about that soon."
- 4 the social act of assembling for some common purpose wordnet
- 5 The people at such a gathering. collective, countable, uncountable
"What has the meeting decided."
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- 6 a casual or unexpected convergence wordnet
- 7 An encounter between people, even accidental. countable, uncountable
"They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work."
- 8 a formally arranged gathering wordnet
- 9 A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence. countable, uncountable
"Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates."
- 10 a small informal social gathering wordnet
- 11 A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States. countable, dated, uncountable
"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."
- 12 a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) wordnet
- 13 An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Quakerism, countable, uncountable
"Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting."
- 1 present participle and gerund of meet form-of, gerund, participle, present
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.
From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing.
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