Meeting

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process or an instance of coming together; an encounter.
  • n. An assembly or gathering of people, as for a business, social, or religious purpose.
  • idiom. meeting of the minds Agreement; concord.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of meet.
  • n. A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
  • n. The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
  • n. An encounter between people, even accidental.
  • n. A place or instance of junction or intersection.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A coming together; an assembling.
  • n. A junction, crossing, or union.
  • n. A congregation; a collection of people; a convention
  • n. An assembly for worship; ; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A coming together; an interview: as, a happy meeting of friends.
  • n. An assembly; a congregation; a collection of people; a convention: as, a social, religious, or political meeting; the meeting adjourned till the next day: applied in the United States, especially in rural districts, to any assemblage for religious worship, and in England and Ireland to one of dissenters from the established church; specifically, an assembly of Friends for religious purposes: as, to go to meeting.
  • n. A conflux, as of rivers; a confluence; a joining, as of lines; junction; union.
  • n. A hostile encounter; a duel.
  • n. plural In mining, the point in a mine-shaft where the ascending and descending cages meet. When the coal was raised in creels or corves the shaft was bulged at the meetings.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
  • n. a casual or unexpected convergence
  • n. a formally arranged gathering
  • n. the social act of assembling for some common purpose
  • n. the act of joining together as one
  • n. a small informal social gathering
  • Hypernym
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    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    junction    congregation    assembly    union    company    convention    conference    confluence    assembling    coincidence   
    Verb Stem
    meet   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    beating    cheating    competing    completing    defeating    deleting    depleting    eating    fleeting    greeting   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    conference    conversation    event    visit    party    business    session    action    plan    report