meeting

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmitɪŋ/, [ˈmiɾɪŋ]

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• Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
• Homophone: meting

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.

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.

   Synonym: powwow

   We need to have a meeting about that soon.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     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. (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. (rustic US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, page 20:

     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.

7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

   Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

• When "meeting" is used to mean a Quaker administrative group, it is often qualified by an indication of how often the group holds regular business meetings, such as "monthly meeting", "quarterly meeting", or "yearly meeting". When the qualifier is omitted, the term is assumed to mean monthly meeting.

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.

meeting

1. present participle and gerund of meet

• teeming

• mítink

Borrowed from English meeting.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmiːtɪŋk]

meeting m inan

1. meeting

• “meeting”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “meeting”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “meeting”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

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meeting m (plural meetings, diminutive meetinkje n)

1. (informal) meeting

   Synonym: vergadering

   Ik kon niet terugbellen, aangezien ik in een meeting zat. ― I couldn't call back, as I was in a meeting.

• Particularly used in office and business contexts.

Borrowed from English meeting.

• IPA^(key): /mi.tiŋ/

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")

   un meeting aérien

   an air show

• “meeting”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “meeting” in Cordial.

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tinɡ/, /ˈmi.tin/^[1]
• Rhymes: -itinɡ, -itin
• Hyphenation: mee‧ting

meeting m (invariable)

1. meeting (gathering of people for a purpose)

   Synonym: riunione

• mingete

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tiŋk/
• Rhymes: -itiŋk
• Syllabification: mee‧ting

meeting m inan (related adjective meetingowy)

1. (literary) alternative form of mityng

• meeting in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• meeting in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• mítingue (prescriptive)

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.^[1][2][3][4]

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. conference (a formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means)

   Synonym: conferência

2. meeting, gathering (a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly)

   Synonym: encontro

3. meet (a sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming)

   Synonym: prova

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting. Doublet of mitin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmitin/ [ˈmi.t̪ĩn]
• Rhymes: -itin

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. meeting

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.