'Meeting' definitions:
Definition of 'meeting'
(from WordNet)
noun
A formally arranged gathering; "next year the meeting will be in Chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson" [syn: meeting, group meeting]
noun
A small informal social gathering; "there was an informal meeting in my living room" [syn: meeting, get together]
noun
A casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway" [syn: meeting, encounter]
noun
The social act of assembling for some common purpose; "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day" [syn: meeting, coming together]
noun
The act of joining together as one; "the merging of the two groups occurred quickly"; "there was no meeting of minds" [syn: merging, meeting, coming together]
noun
A place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers); "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers" [syn: confluence, meeting]
Definition of 'Meeting'
From: GCIDE
- Meeting \Meet"ing\ (m[=e]t"[i^]ng), n.
- 1. A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonious meeting. [1913 Webster]
- 4. An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Conference; assembly; company; convention; congregation; junction; confluence; union. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Meeting'
From: GCIDE
- Meet \Meet\ (m[=e]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Met (m[e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Meeting.] [OE. meten, AS. m[=e]tan, fr. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, a meeting; akin to OS. m[=o]tian to meet, Icel. maeta, Goth. gam[=o]tjan. See Moot, v. t.]
- 1. To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear. [1913 Webster]
- His daughter came out to meet him. --Judg. xi. 34. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye met a horrid sight; he met his fate. [1913 Webster]
- Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand. [1913 Webster]
- To meet half way, literally, to go half the distance between in order to meet (one); hence, figuratively, to yield or concede half of the difference in order to effect a compromise or reconciliation with. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'meeting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accompanying,
- accordant,
- accumulated,
- agglomerate,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggregate,
- aggregation,
- agreeing,
- amassed,
- appointment,
- approach,
- approaching,
- appulse,
- articulation,
- assembled,
- assemblee,
- assembly,
- assignation,
- assignation house,
- associate,
- associated,
- asymptote,
- asymptotic,
- at home,
- at one with,
- audience,
- ball,
- bargaining,
- bargaining session,
- bedtime prayer,
- binding,
- bond,
- bottleneck,
- bout,
- bracketing,
- brawl,
- brunt,
- brushing,
- bulldozing,
- bulling,
- bump,
- bunched,
- bundled,
- camp meeting,
- cannon,
- carambole,
- carom,
- caucus,
- centripetal,
- centrolineal,
- church,
- church service,
- clash,
- clumped,
- clustered,
- clustering,
- coacting,
- coactive,
- coadunate,
- coincident,
- collaborative,
- collected,
- collective,
- collision,
- collision course,
- colloquium,
- collusive,
- combination,
- combinative,
- combined,
- combining,
- commission,
- committee,
- communication,
- competition,
- compline,
- concatenation,
- concentralization,
- concentration,
- concerted,
- conclave,
- concomitant,
- concordant,
- concours,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- concurrent,
- concurring,
- concussion,
- confab,
- confabulation,
- conference,
- conflict,
- confluence,
- confluent,
- conflux,
- confocal,
- confrontation,
- congeries,
- conglomerate,
- conglomeration,
- congregate,
- congregated,
- congregation,
- congress,
- conjoint,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- conjunctive,
- connecting,
- connection,
- connectional,
- connective,
- connivent,
- consilient,
- conspiratorial,
- consultation,
- contacting,
- contest,
- contingent,
- conventicle,
- convention,
- convergence,
- converging,
- convocation,
- cooperant,
- cooperative,
- coordinate,
- copulation,
- copulative,
- council,
- council fire,
- council of war,
- coupling,
- coworking,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- crossing,
- crump,
- crunch,
- cumulate,
- dance,
- date,
- derby,
- devotions,
- diet,
- discussion,
- divine service,
- duty,
- eisteddfod,
- encounter,
- engagement,
- evening devotions,
- evensong,
- exchange of views,
- exercises,
- eyeball-to-eyeball encounter,
- fascicled,
- fasciculated,
- festivity,
- fete,
- fight,
- focal,
- focalization,
- focus,
- forgathering,
- forum,
- funnel,
- game,
- games,
- gathered,
- gathering,
- get-together,
- glancing,
- glomerate,
- go,
- grazing,
- gymkhana,
- hammering,
- harmonious,
- heaped,
- high-level talk,
- hookup,
- housewarming,
- hub,
- huddle,
- impact,
- impingement,
- impingent,
- impinging,
- in contact,
- in session,
- interchange of views,
- intercommunicating,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- interlinking,
- intersection,
- interview,
- joinder,
- joined,
- joining,
- joint,
- jointure,
- joust,
- junction,
- knotted,
- knotting,
- lauds,
- leagued,
- levee,
- liaison,
- linkage,
- linking,
- liturgy,
- love nest,
- lumped,
- marriage,
- Mass,
- massed,
- match,
- matching,
- matins,
- mauling,
- meet,
- meeting place,
- merger,
- merging,
- moot,
- morning devotions,
- mutual approach,
- mutually approaching,
- narrow squeak,
- narrowing gap,
- near thing,
- near-miss,
- negotiations,
- news conference,
- night song,
- none,
- nones,
- novena,
- nudging,
- office,
- Olympic games,
- Olympics,
- onslaught,
- osculatory,
- packaged,
- pairing,
- palaver,
- panel,
- parasitic,
- parley,
- party,
- percussion,
- piled,
- place of assignation,
- plenum,
- pourparler,
- powwow,
- praise meeting,
- prayer,
- prayer meeting,
- prayers,
- press conference,
- prime,
- prime song,
- prom,
- public worship,
- quorum,
- radial,
- radiating,
- radius,
- rally,
- ramming,
- reception,
- rencontre,
- rendezvous,
- revival,
- revival meeting,
- rubbing,
- saprophytic,
- seance,
- service,
- session,
- sext,
- shindig,
- shock,
- sideswipe,
- sit-in,
- sitting,
- sledgehammering,
- smash,
- smash-up,
- smashing,
- soiree,
- splice,
- spokes,
- stacked,
- summit,
- summit conference,
- summitry,
- symbiosis,
- symbiotic,
- symposium,
- synchronous,
- synergetic,
- synergic,
- synergistic,
- synod,
- tangent,
- tangential,
- tent meeting,
- test,
- thrusting,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- tierce,
- tilt,
- touching,
- tournament,
- tourney,
- trial,
- tryst,
- turnout,
- undersong,
- unification,
- union,
- united,
- uniting,
- vesper,
- vespers,
- vigils,
- watch meeting,
- watch night,
- watch-night service,
- whomp,
- wrapped up,
- yoking
Words containing 'Meeting'
- Meet,
- Meetly,
- Meetness,
- To be meet with,
- To meet with,
- meet up with,
- Camp meeting,
- Class meeting,
- Conference meeting,
- Joint meeting,
- Mass meeting,
- Plymouth Meeting,
- Prayer meeting,
- Primary meeting,
- Protracted meeting,
- Town meeting,
- Vestry meeting,
- Watch meeting,
- board meeting,
- committee meeting,
- group meeting,
- lunch meeting,
- luncheon meeting,
- meet head on,
- meeting house,
- meeting of minds,
- meeting place,
- race meeting,
- revival meeting,
- sense of the meeting,
- solemn meeting,
- sports meeting,
- stockholders meeting,
- summit meeting,
- swim meet,
- swimming meet,
- track meet,
- Plymouth Meeting, PA,
- Praise-meeting,
- To make both ends meet,
- To meet half way,
- To meet one's maker,
- go-to-meeting,
- make ends meet,
- sunday-go-to-meeting