Meeting

See also: meeting

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmiːtɪŋ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Mee‧ting

Noun

Meeting n (genitive Meetings, plural Meetings)

1. meeting (in the sense of a gathering of people/parties for a purpose, often used with the definite article to refer to "meetings" or "a meeting ")
   • 2015, Uni Spiegel, issue 1/2015, page 8:

     Zum Meeting, aufs Klo oder ins Bett – das Smartphone ist mittlerweile fast überall dabei, selbst an Orten, an denen es nichts zu suchen hat.

     To meetings, to the toilet or into the bed – by now the smartphone is present almost everywhere, even at places where it has no business at all.

   • 1866, Carl Blind, Blätter und Blüthen., in: Die Gartenlaube, Ernst Keil’s Nachfolger, page 143:

     Ein Versuch sollte nun gemacht werden, die jugendlichen Vagabunden zu einem Meeting zusammenzubringen.

     An attempt was now to be made to gather the juvenile vagabonds in a meeting.

Synonyms

• Besprechung, Treffen, Versammlung, Zusammenkunft

Further reading

• “Meeting” in Duden online