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. Engin Altay:

    This coup attempt has shown once again how precious democracy and are freedoms for us all, all 133 CHP members of parliament will be at Taksim. But we are not the only owners of democracy, everybody must come to the meeting and show the world how much democracy has been internalized (by Turks).

  2. Steven Mnuchin:

    If you'd wish to keep me here so that I don't have my important meeting and continue to grill me, then we can do that, i will cancel my meeting and I will not be back here. I will be very clear if that's the way you'd like to have this relationship.

  3. Rahul Dubey:

    With Trayvon Martin, I would hear of these verdicts. And yeah, I would say to Rahul Dubey,' Oh my God, that's terrible.' And then I would get on my plane. I would book my meeting. I would still go to dinner.

  4. White House:

    We're continuing to move forward and make plans, and if the meeting happens, it happens. And if it doesn't, then we'll see from there.

  5. William Hagerty:

    The fact you see Kim Jong Un meeting with Vladimir Putin underscores the fact that the sanctions are working and the sanctions are putting extreme economic pressure on the North Korean regime, what we see is an outreach to try to find a way to deal with it. There is a much simpler way to deal with it and that is to denuclearize.

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