meeting

Meanings

Plural: meetings

Noun

• a formally arranged gathering
  • "next year the meeting will be in Chicago"
  • "the meeting elected a chairperson"
• a small informal social gathering
  • "there was an informal meeting in my living room"
• a casual or unexpected convergence
  • "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"
• the social act of assembling for some common purpose
  • "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day"
• the act of joining together as one
  • "there was no meeting of minds"
• a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
• The act of persons or things that meet.
• A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
• The people at such a gathering.
• An encounter between people, even accidental.
• A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
• A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
• An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Verb

• come together
  • "I'll probably see you at the meeting"
• get together socially or for a specific purpose
• be adjacent or come together
• fill or meet a want or need
• satisfy a condition or restriction
• satisfy or fulfill
• collect in one place
• get to know; get acquainted with
• meet by design; be present at the arrival of
• contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
• experience as a reaction
• undergo or suffer
• be in direct physical contact with; make contact
• present participle and gerund of meet

Synonyms

adjoin, assemble, assembly, come across, coming together, confluence, conform to, contact, converge, convocation, cope with, encounter, fill, fit, foregather, forgather, fulfil, fulfill, gather, gathering, get together, group meeting, match, meet, meet-up, merging, play, powwow, receive, run across, run into, satisfy, see, suffer, take on, touch

Antonyms

diverge