meeting
Meaning
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- The act of persons or things that meet.
- A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
- The people at such a gathering.
- An encounter between people, even accidental.
- A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
- 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).
Concepts
meeting
assembly
gathering
conference
encounter
union
convention
session
council
interview
reunion
congress
rendezvous
appointment
date
audience
get-together
assemblage
rally
coming together
convocation
sitting
association
joining
consultation
confluence
congregation
junction
encountering
society
get together
acquaintance
reception
tryst
party
seeing
facing
contact
intercourse
conjunction
conclave
combination
powwow
discussion
meet
understanding
company
introduction
collection
confronting
assignation
visit
conversation
deliberation
seance
merging
group meeting
counsel
formal meeting
briefing
meet with
gather
lecture
group
acceptance
access
accession
admission
admittance
approach
connection
entrance
entry
familiarity
interrelation
landing
relation
relationship
getting together
together
greeting
welcome
league
engagement
associate
touching
confrontation
experience
coalition
unification
colloquium
interchange
parley
assignment
concurrence
convergence
convergent
converging
call
class
round table
approaching
juncture
going towards
overtaking
assembling together
circle
united
seeing one another
falling togehter
finding
obtaining
connected
receiving
committee
conventicle
business appointment
board
court
theatre
visiting
conflict
fight
competition
rencontre
rencounter
hold a meeting
hold
call a meeting
uniting
fusion
intercepting
interrupting
appointed time
place
brush
coming upon
incidence
concourse
congregating
convening
rallying
crossroads
node
caulking
chance
commissure
joint
raphe
rhaphe
seam
suture
meeting place
aggregation
conglomerate
assembling
chance meeting
word
game
match
corresponding
sufficient
flock
reference
talk
close
congregate
family reunion
amassing
clustering
collating
massing
meet-up
community
crew
collectivity
crowd
set
public
bower
dinner party
jollification
pergola
soiree
literary device
encounters
meetings
bringing together
seat
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmiːtɪŋ/
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.
meet
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- To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
- To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
- To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
- To come together.
- To come together.
- To come together.
- To make physical or perceptual contact.
- To make physical or perceptual contact.
- To make physical or perceptual contact.
- To make physical or perceptual contact.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- To balance or come out correct.
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
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