meeting

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United Kingdom//ˈmiːtɪŋ//
United States//ˈmitɪŋ//
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The act of persons or things that meet.

noun

1
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.
In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.
Before he left Glasgow on Tuesday to return to Washington on a late-evening flight, Mr. Biden hailed progress on multiple fronts from the second day of meetings with heads of state, including initiatives to reduce emissions from agriculture.
3
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
datedA 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.
7
An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

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.

verb

1
Also a form of meetpresent participle and gerund of meet

Etymology

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.

Forms

plural: meetings

Meek · A surname.Meena · A member of a certain tribe of Rajasthan, India.meet · To make contact (with someone) while in proximity. To come…

meeting · The act of persons or things that meet.

meets · Forming a combination or nexus of.meg · a nutmeg Meg · A diminutive of the female given names Margaret or Megan.

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