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meeting.

The act of persons or things that meet.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmiːtɪŋ/UK/ˈmitɪŋ/US[ˈmiɾɪŋ]US
  1. The act of persons or things that meet.

    gerund · uncountable
    Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.
  2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.

    countable · uncountable
    We need to have a meeting about that soon.
  3. The people at such a gathering.

    collective · countable · uncountable
    What has the meeting decided.
  4. An encounter between people, even accidental.

    countable · uncountable
    They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.

    countable · uncountable
    Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  6. A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.

    countable · dated · uncountable
  7. An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

    Quakerism · countable · uncountable
    Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
Where this word comes from

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/ˈmiːtɪŋ/UK/ˈmitɪŋ/US[ˈmiɾɪŋ]US
  1. present participle and gerund of meet

    form-of · gerund · participle · present
Where this word comes from

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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