meeting.
The act of persons or things that meet.
Meaning & usage
The act of persons or things that meet.
Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.
A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
We need to have a meeting about that soon.
The people at such a gathering.
What has the meeting decided.
An encounter between people, even accidental.
They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
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.
present participle and gerund of meet
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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