meeting

Betekenis

1. The act of persons or things that meet.
2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
3. The people at such a gathering.
4. An encounter between people, even accidental.
5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
6. A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
7. An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈmiːtɪŋ/

Etymologie

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.

Cognate met Nederlands

ontmoeting

Nieuw

meet

1. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
2. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
3. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
4. To come together.
5. To come together.
6. To come together.
7. To make physical or perceptual contact.
8. To make physical or perceptual contact.
9. To make physical or perceptual contact.
10. To make physical or perceptual contact.
11. To satisfy; to comply with.
12. To balance or come out correct.
13. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
14. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.