meeting
noun
1. a formally arranged gathering
- next year the meeting will be in Chicago
- the meeting elected a chairperson
Definition categories: group, assemblage, gathering
2. a small informal social gathering
- there was an informal meeting in my living room
Definition categories: group
3. a casual or unexpected convergence
- he still remembers their meeting in Paris
Similar word(s): encounter
Definition categories: event, convergence
4. the social act of assembling for some common purpose
- his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day
Similar word(s): congress
Definition categories: act, assemblage, assembly, gathering
5. the act of joining together as one
- there was no meeting of minds
Similar word(s): merging
Definition categories: act, convergence, convergency, converging
6. a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
Similar word(s): confluence
Definition categories: location
Sentences with meeting as a noun:
- We need to have a meeting about that soon.
- What has the meeting decided.
- They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
- Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
- Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
verb
1. present participle of meet