meeting
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmiːtɪŋ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmitɪŋ/, [ˈmiɾɪŋ]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
- Homophone: meting
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.
Noun edit
meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)
- (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.
- Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.
- A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
- We need to have a meeting about that soon.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.
Audio (US) (file)
- In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.
- (collective) The people at such a gathering.
- What has the meeting decided.
- An encounter between people, even accidental.
- They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
- A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
- Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
- (rustic US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
- 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, page 20:
- 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.
- (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
- Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
Usage notes edit
- When "meeting" is used to mean a Quaker administrative group, it is often qualified by an indication of how often the group holds regular business meetings, such as "monthly meeting", "quarterly meeting", or "yearly meeting". When the qualifier is omitted, the term is assumed to mean monthly meeting.
Synonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- area meeting
- area meeting
- board meeting
- captive audience meeting
- captive audience meeting
- counter-meeting
- experience meeting
- extraordinary general meeting
- field meeting
- flag meeting
- go-to-meeting
- go-to-meeting
- kick-off meeting, kick off meeting, kickoff meeting
- meetinghouse, meeting house
- meeting of the minds, meeting of minds
- meeting place
- meeting recovery syndrome
- meeting room
- meeting seed
- monster meeting
- overflow meeting
- select meeting
- shareholders' meeting
- stand-up meeting
- stand-up meeting
- Sunday-go-to-meeting
- Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
- Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
- tent meeting
- tent meeting
- tone meeting
- watch meeting
Descendants edit
- Belizean Creole: meetn
- Bislama: miting
- Krio: meeting
- Pijin: miting
- Tok Pisin: miting
- Torres Strait Creole: miting
- → Bulgarian: митинг (miting)
- → Catalan: míting
- → Crimean Tatar: miting
- → Czech: meeting, mítink
- → French: meeting
- → Galician: mitin
- → Italian: meeting
- → Japanese: ミーティング
- → Korean: 미팅 (miting)
- → Kriol: miding, miting
- → Macedonian: митинг (miting)
- → Ottoman Turkish: میتینغ (miting)
- Turkish: miting
- → Persian: میتینگ (miting)
- → Polish: myting
- → Portuguese: meeting
- → Russian: ми́тинг (míting), ми́тингъ (míting)
- → Serbo-Croatian: miting / митинг
- → Spanish: meeting, mitin, mitín
- → Tagalog: miting
Translations edit
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing.
Verb edit
meeting
- present participle and gerund of meet
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English meeting.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
meeting m inan
Declension edit
Further reading edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English meeting.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
meeting m (plural meetings)
Further reading edit
- “meeting”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “meeting” in Cordial.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
meeting m (invariable)
References edit
- ^ meeting in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
meeting m inan (related adjective meetingowy)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | meeting | meetingi |
genitive | meetingu | meetingów |
dative | meetingowi | meetingom |
accusative | meeting | meetingi |
instrumental | meetingiem | meetingami |
locative | meetingu | meetingach |
vocative | meetingu | meetingi |
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
- mítingue (prescriptive)
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.[1][2][3][4]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
meeting m (plural meetings)
- conference (a formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means)
- Synonym: conferência
- meeting, gathering (a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly)
- Synonym: encontro
- meet (a sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming)
- Synonym: prova
References edit
- ^ “meeting” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “meeting” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- ^ “meeting” in iDicionário Aulete.
- ^ “meeting” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English meeting. Doublet of mitin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
meeting m (plural meetings)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.