meeting

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From meet +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

meeting

  1. present participle of meet

Noun[edit]

meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)

  1. (uncountable) The action of the verb to meet.
  2. A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
    We need to have a meeting about that soon.
  3. The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
    What has the meeting decided.
  4. An encounter between people, even accidental.
    They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  5. A place or instance of junction or intersection.
    Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  6. (rural US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
    • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, p. 20:
      You use ta give a good meetin'. I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
  7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
    Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

Usage notes[edit]

  • When "meeting" is used to mean a Quaker administrative group, it is often qualified by an indication of how often the group holds regular business meetings, such as "monthly meeting", "quarterly meeting", or "yearly meeting". When the qualifier is omitted, the term is assumed to mean monthly meeting.

Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from meeting (noun)

Synonyms[edit]

Translations[edit]

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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Descendants[edit]

Statistics[edit]

Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: physical · spring · troops · #897: meeting · corner · spite · built

Anagrams[edit]

Czech[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

meeting m

  1. meeting

Further reading[edit]

  • meeting in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • meeting in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French[edit]

French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

Borrowing from English meeting.

Noun[edit]

meeting m (plural meetings)

  1. large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")
    un meeting aérien
    an air show

Further reading[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

meeting m (plural meetings)

  1. meeting
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