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meeting

[ mee-ting ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the act of coming together:
a chance meeting in the park.
Synonyms: rendezvous, confrontation, encounter
an assembly or conference of persons for a specific purpose:
a ten o'clock business meeting.
the body of persons present at an assembly or conference:
to read a report to the meeting.
a hostile encounter; duel.
an assembly for religious worship, especially of Quakers.
meeting house.
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 /

Origin of meeting¹

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

take a meeting, Informal. to hold, conduct, or participate in a meeting:
The producer took a meeting with the cast of the film.

When we had that meeting in the Caribbean, Jeffrey was holding his own and not only was he a pleasant host, he was pleasant guy.

I keep meeting more and more people where that seems to be the case.

In an interview with ESPN, Jaffe recalled his initial meeting with Stuart Scott.

I had the pleasure of meeting Stuart Scott several years ago.

The resources were what you might expect: Dining room, a media center, a library, a TV room, a meeting room, a computer room.

I presume this path does not extend many miles without meeting impediments.

A friend and companion meeting together in season, but above them both is a wife with her husband.

"That is why I told you the other meeting seemed a long time ago," explained the girl.

This may be called the first day of the revolution, although the object of the meeting was to prevent such a catastrophe.

He ought not to be in London now—it is stifling—went up for some business meeting or other—seemed to wish to avoid details.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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