meeting

[ mee-ting ]

noun

1. the act of coming together:

   a chance meeting in the park.

   Synonyms: rendezvous, confrontation, encounter

2. an assembly or conference of persons for a specific purpose:

   a ten o'clock business meeting.

3. the body of persons present at an assembly or conference:

   to read a report to the meeting.

4. a hostile encounter; duel.
5. an assembly for religious worship, especially of Quakers.
6. meeting house.
7. a place or point of contact; junction; juncture: the meeting of the waters.

   the meeting of two roads;

   the meeting of the waters.

meeting

/ ˈmiːtɪŋ /

noun

1. an act of coming together; encounter
2. an assembly or gathering
3. a conjunction or union
4. a sporting competition, as of athletes, or of horse racing

Other Words From

• sub·meeting noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of meeting¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English; meet ¹ + -ing ¹

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. take a meeting, Informal. to hold, conduct, or participate in a meeting:

   The producer took a meeting with the cast of the film.

Example Sentences

In a book published earlier this year that seems to have been designed to raise her national profile and sort of succeeded, she claimed to have shot a 14-month-old dog in a gravel pit because he wouldn’t behave, as well as to have stared down North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a meeting that, it would later emerge, never took place, because she made it up.

From Slate

The morning after Foden's arrest, she said there was a special staff meeting.

From BBC

They said he had initially been asked his views in a private meeting of Labour MPs, but once that leaked, he felt it necessary to explain publicly why he had come to his opinion.

From BBC

But Streeting’s view became public after he told a large, notionally private, meeting of Labour MPs what he thought.

From BBC

Speaking after meeting Nipsa, Unite, and Unison, the minister said there had been constructive discussions.

From BBC

Related Words

• competition
• confrontation
• contest
• convention
• date
• encounter
• reunion
• session
• showdown
• talk