meeting

noun

meet·​ing ˈmē-tiŋ 

1

: an act or process of coming together: such as

a

: an assembly for a common purpose (such as worship)

b

: a session of horse or dog racing

2

: a permanent organizational unit of the Society of Friends

3

: intersection, junction

Synonyms

• assembly
• congress
• convention
• convocation
• council
• gathering
• get-together
• huddle

Examples of meeting in a Sentence

The club's monthly meeting will be held next Monday evening.

She was too busy to attend the meeting.

Let's have a meeting to discuss these problems.

I wasn't able to talk to him because he was in a meeting.

They started dating each other soon after their first meeting.

Their friendship began with a chance meeting at a business convention.

Tonight's game will be their first meeting of the season.

a town at the meeting of two rivers

Recent Examples on the Web

Minutes for those meetings are not posted to the county's website, and the Journal Sentinel's efforts to reach the county and the committee by phone on Friday, Dec. 6, were unsuccessful. —Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2024

Advertisement World & Nation Trump is welcomed by Macron to Paris with presidential pomp and joined by Zelensky in their meeting 1 hour ago Amid global unrest, with wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, the cathedral’s resurrection emerged as a symbol of resilience and unity. —Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024

The Cleveland Fed’s CPI supports this view and should leave the door open to a 25 basis point cut at the December meeting. —Bill Stone, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024

Thursday's filing came as Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy were on Capitol Hill for closed-door meetings with lawmakers to discuss Trump's Department of Government Efficiency initiative to dismantle parts of the federal government. —Meg Kinnard The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing meeting

• a meeting of (the) minds
• business meeting
• camp meeting
• meeting of minds
• prayer meeting
• protracted meeting
• revival meeting
• Sunday-go-to-meeting
• town meeting

Kids Definition

meeting

noun

meet·​ing

ˈmēt-iŋ

1

: the act of persons or things that meet

a chance meeting

2

: a coming together of a number of persons for a definite purpose

the club meeting

3

: an assembly for religious worship

a Quaker meeting

4

: the place where two things come together : junction