meeting

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmitɪŋ/, [ˈmiɾɪŋ]

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• Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
• Homophone: meting

From Middle English metinge. Equivalent to meet (“to come together”, verb) +‎ -ing (suffix forming gerunds).

meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)

1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.

   Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.

2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.

   We need to have a meeting about that soon.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.

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3. (collective) The people at such a gathering.

   What has the meeting decided.

4. An encounter between people, even accidental.

   They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.

5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.

   Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.

6. (rural US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, p. 20:

     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.

7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

   Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

• When "meeting" is used to mean a Quaker administrative group, it is often qualified by an indication of how often the group holds regular business meetings, such as "monthly meeting", "quarterly meeting", or "yearly meeting". When the qualifier is omitted, the term is assumed to mean monthly meeting.

• assembly
• convocation
• gathering

• annual general meeting
• board meeting
• monthly meeting
• prayer meeting
• race meeting

See the etymology of the main entry.

meeting

1. present participle of meet

• teeming

• mítink

meeting m

1. meeting

• meeting in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• meeting in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English meeting.

• IPA^(key): /mi.tiŋ/

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")

   un meeting aérien

   an air show

• “meeting” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English meeting.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tinɡ/, [ˈmiːt̪iŋɡ]
• Hyphenation: mee‧ting

meeting m (invariable)

1. meeting (gathering of people for a purpose)

   Synonym: riunione

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. meeting