Quaker meeting
noun
a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
Informal. a gathering at which there is considerable silence.
QUIZZES
CHALLENGE YOURSELF WITH THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL PART OF SPEECH QUIZ!
How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text!
Note: Many of the following questions will ask you to identify the parts of speech “in order.” That means the first word in all capital letters will correspond to the first option in an answer, and so on.
Question 1 of 10
In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.
Origin of Quaker meeting
First recorded in 1650–60
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Example sentences from the Web for quaker meeting
The Quaker-meeting has contributed to our vocabulary a synonym for dullness.
Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast|Samuel Adams Drake
British Dictionary definitions for quaker meeting
Quaker meeting
noun
a gathering of the Quakers for worship, characterized by periods of silence and by members speaking as moved by the Spirit
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012