meeting

plural meetings

1. gerunduncountableThe act of persons or things that meet.

   Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.

2. countableuncountableA gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.

   We need to have a meeting about that soon.

   2 more examples

   In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.

   2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

   Before he left Glasgow on Tuesday to return to Washington on a late-evening flight, Mr. Biden hailed progress on multiple fronts from the second day of meetings with heads of state, including initiatives to reduce emissions from agriculture.

   2021 November 2, Jim Tankersley, Katie Rogers, Lisa Friedman, quoting Joe Biden, “With Methane and Forest Deals, Climate Summit Offers Hope After Gloomy Start”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2022

   Synonyms: powwow

3. collectivecountableuncountableThe people at such a gathering.

   What has the meeting decided.

4. countableuncountableAn encounter between people, even accidental.

   They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.

5. countableuncountableA place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.

   Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.

6. countabledateduncountablerustic USA religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.

   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.

   1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, page 20

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

   Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of meet