# meeting

Pronunciation: say "MEE-ting" US /ˈmitɪŋ/, UK /ˈmiːtɪŋ/

## Noun

1. A gathering of people for a particular purpose, such as discussion, planning, or decision-making, or the people at such a gathering.
   - Simple: A time when people come together for a reason, often to talk or decide things, or the people who come to it.
   - _The board scheduled an emergency meeting to discuss the merger._
   - _She spends most mornings in meetings with clients._
3. An occasion on which people encounter one another, whether arranged in advance or entirely by chance.
   - Simple: A moment when people come face to face, even if they did not plan it.
   - _A chance meeting at the airport rekindled their friendship._
   - _Their meetings over the years were brief, unplanned, and always memorable._
4. The act or process of coming together, whether of people or of things.
   - Simple: The act of coming together, by people or by things.
   - _The meeting of warm and cold air masses often produces thunderstorms._
   - _The restaurant's menu celebrates the meeting of Korean and Mexican cooking._
5. A place or point at which two or more things join or intersect, such as the confluence of rivers.
   - Simple: A place where two or more things, such as rivers or roads, come together or cross.
   - _The fort was built on a bluff above the meeting of the two rivers, where it could watch both valleys._
   - _The monument marks the meeting of three state borders._
6. An organized sporting occasion consisting of a series of races or competitions, particularly in track and field or horse racing. *(UK)*
   - Simple: A sports event with a number of races or contests, often for runners or for horses.
   - _She ran the fastest 400 meters of her life at an international athletics meeting last summer._
   - _The racecourse hosts a three-day meeting every spring, with seven races on each card._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of meet. — present participle and gerund of meet
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of meet. Use it after 'is' or 'are' for actions happening now.
   - _The two leaders are meeting in Geneva next week._
   - _Meeting strict deadlines requires careful planning._

## Noun

7. A religious service held by a charismatic preacher, especially in small towns of the rural United States. *(dated)*
   - Simple: A church service led by an exciting preacher, once common in small American towns.
   - _Every summer a traveling preacher held a meeting under a canvas tent at the edge of town._
   - _Each August the revival preacher came through, and farm families drove in from miles around for a week of meetings under the big tent._

## Other meanings

- (noun) An administrative unit within the Religious Society of Friends, the Christian denomination commonly known as the Quakers.

## Origin

**Meanings 1, 3–7** — From Middle English meeting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting ("meeting, assembly, society"), equivalent to meet + -ing. It has cognates such as West Frisian moeting and Dutch ontmoeting, and is related to Danish møde, Swedish möte, and moot.
**Meaning 2** — In make-up it is meet + -ing: Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, the present participle of *mōtijaną ("to meet"), became Old English mētende and then Middle English metynge.

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