What does Meeting mean?

Definitions for Meeting
ˈmi tɪŋmeet·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. meeting, group meetingnoun

    a formally arranged gathering

    "next year the meeting will be in Chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson"

  2. meeting, get togethernoun

    a small informal social gathering

    "there was an informal meeting in my living room"

  3. meeting, encounternoun

    a casual or unexpected convergence

    "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway"

  4. meeting, coming togethernoun

    the social act of assembling for some common purpose

    "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day"

  5. merging, meeting, coming togethernoun

    the act of joining together as one

    "the merging of the two groups occurred quickly"; "there was no meeting of minds"

  6. confluence, meetingnoun

    a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)

    "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers"

Wiktionary

  1. meetingnoun

    A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.

    We need to have a meeting about that soon.

  2. meetingnoun

    The people at such a gathering, as a collective.

    What has the meeting decided.

  3. meetingnoun

    An encounter between people, even accidental.

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

  4. meetingnoun

    A place or instance of junction or intersection.

    Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Meetingnoun

    Etymology: from meet.

    If the fathers and husbands of those, whose relief this your meeting intends, were of the houshold of faith, then their relicts and children ought not to be strangers to the good that is done in it, if they want it. Thomas Sprat, Sermons.

    Since the ladies have been left out of all meetings except parties at play, our conversation hath degenerated. Jonathan Swift.

    Let’s be revenged on him; let’s appoint him a meeting, and lead him on with a fine baited delay. William Shakespeare.

Wikipedia

  1. Meeting

    A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments. Meetings can be used as form of group decision making.

ChatGPT

  1. meeting

    A meeting is a gathering or assembly of two or more people, often in a formal or structured context, where conversation, discussion, or decision-making occurs. This event may take place in-person or virtually, and may be scheduled for business, social, or other purposes. Meetings can vary in size, length, formality, and topics.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Meeting

    of Meet

  2. Meetingnoun

    a coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress

  3. Meetingnoun

    a junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers

  4. Meetingnoun

    a congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting

  5. Meetingnoun

    an assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters

Wikidata

  1. Meeting

    In a meeting, two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal setting.

Editors Contribution

  1. meeting

    A gathering of people for a specific purpose.

    There was a community meeting every week where they all loved to have fun and arrange things.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 15, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Meeting' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #629

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Meeting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #497

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Meeting' in Nouns Frequency: #160

Anagrams for Meeting »

  1. teeming

  2. tegmine

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Meeting in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Meeting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Meeting in a Sentence

  1. Marc Chandler:

    The week ahead is likely to provide some clarification for investors on three fronts that have been a source of uncertainty. The FOMC meeting, with updated forecasts, is center stage.

  2. Dick Durbin:

    I have never been called to a meeting of ActBlue. I have never been asked to approve their agenda or their website.

  3. David Norris:

    Fed policy is dictated by data, and on a meeting-by-meeting basis.

  4. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls:

    We must find a compromise, everybody is contributing to this and I hope that the February meeting will allow us to make progress, that at least it will be a decisive step, seeing Britain leave the European Union would be a tragedy.

  5. Development Party -LRB- USDP -RRB-:

    There have been posts on Facebook saying that the Central Executive Committee (CEC) had expelled Thura U Shwe Mann from the party after holding a meeting in the evening of November 3, the CEC did not hold any meeting on November 3 ... The posts spreading on the Internet are just rumors and we would like to request that writing and spreading of these posts be stopped.

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