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meeting

UK/ˈmiːtɪŋ//ˈmitɪŋ/

meeting noun: the act of persons or things that meet. Also the present participle and gerund of meet.

Noun

meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)

  1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.
    • Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.
  2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
    • We need to have a meeting about that soon.
    • In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    Synonyms:
    powwow
  3. (collective) The people at such a gathering.
    • What has the meeting decided.
  4. An encounter between people, even accidental.
    • They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
    • Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  6. (dated, rustic US) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
    • You use ta give a good meetin'. I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, page 20
  7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
    • Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

Also used as

meeting is also the present participle and gerund of meet.

meeting meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

meeting in Hindi

gathering for a purpose
बैठक baiṭhak, सभा sabhā, सम्मेलन sammelan, अधिवेशन adhiveśan
people at such a gathering
सदस्य sadasya
encounter between people
मिलन milan, भेंट bhẽṭ
action noun of the verb to meet
भेंट bhẽṭ

meeting in Tamil

கூட்டம், சந்திப்பு

meeting in Marathi

gathering for a purpose
बैठक baiṭhak, सभा sabhā

meeting in Urdu

gathering for a purpose
بَیٹَھک baiṭhak, سَبھا sabhā, اَنْجُمَن anjuman, نِشَسْت niśast, مُلاقات mulāqāt
people at such a gathering
اَنْجُمَن anjuman
encounter between people
دِیدار dīdār
More languagesFewer languages
meeting in Bengali
মজলিস mojoliś, ইজতেমা ijtema, আঞ্জুমান anjuman, দিদার didar
meeting in Telugu
సమావేశం samāvēśaṁ
meeting in Malayalam
യോഗം, മീറ്റിംഗ്, കൂടിക്കാഴ്ച
meeting in Kannada
ಸಭೆ
meeting in Punjabi
ਮੀਟਿੰਗ
meeting in Gujarati
બેઠક, મીટિંગ
meeting in Odia
ବୈଠକ
meeting in Sanskrit
सभा sabhā, परिषद् pariṣad, मिलन milana
meeting in Assamese
মেল mel, সভা xobha
meeting in Nepali
बैठक, भेटवार्ता
meeting in Arabic
اِجْتِمَاع ijtimāʕ, مَجْلِس majlis, مُلَاقَاة mulāqāh, مُقَابَلَة muqābala
meeting in Malay
pertemuan, mesyuarat, miting, muktamar
meeting in Indonesian
pertemuan
meeting in Thai
การประชุม gaan-bprà-chum
meeting in Vietnamese
hội nghị, hội họp, gặp gỡ
meeting in Myanmar
အစည်းအဝေး a.cany:a.we:

Examples of meeting in a sentence

  • There had been words between him and the secretary about the outcome of the meeting.
  • During meetings, the supervisor usually sits at the head of the table.
  • At this point in the meeting, I'd like to propose a new item for the agenda.

All 40 example sentences with meeting

Synonyms of meeting

All synonyms of meeting

Forms of meeting

pluralmeetings

Plural of meeting: meetings

Origin of meeting

From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.

From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing.

Words formed from meeting

Phrases with meeting

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Words that rhyme with meeting

Questions about meeting

What does meeting mean?
Meeting means the act of persons or things that meet.
What is meeting in Hindi?
Meeting in Hindi is बैठक (baiṭhak), सभा (sabhā), सम्मेलन (sammelan). See Meeting meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is meeting?
Meeting is a noun.
How do you pronounce meeting?
Meeting is pronounced /ˈmiːtɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the plural of meeting?
The plural of meeting is meetings.

Words near meeting in the dictionary

  1. meethi roti
  2. meethi rotis
  3. meetin'
  4. meetin' seed
  5. meetin' seeds
  6. meeting
  7. meeting a sticky end
  8. meeting cute
  9. meeting halfway
  10. meeting house
  11. meeting houses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meeting (page history and authors); meeting (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meeting (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meeting (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meeting (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meeting (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meeting (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); meeting (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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