meeting
//ˈmiːtɪŋ//
Forms
- Plural
- meetings
Definitions
1.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.
3.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.
1.present participle and gerund of meet
Frequency
Overall
Common· #850
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
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”).