meeting

See also: Meeting

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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.

NounEdit

meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)

  1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.
    Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.
  2. 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.
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  3. (collective) The people at such a gathering.
    What has the meeting decided.
  4. An encounter between people, even accidental.
    They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
    Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  6. (rural US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
    • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, p. 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.
  7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
    Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
Usage notesEdit
  • 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.
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Etymology 2Edit

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.

VerbEdit

meeting

  1. present participle of meet

AnagramsEdit

CzechEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English meeting.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

meeting m

  1. meeting

Further readingEdit

  • meeting in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • meeting in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

FrenchEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English meeting.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

meeting m (plural meetings)

  1. large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")
    un meeting aérien
    an air show

Further readingEdit

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

meeting m (invariable)

  1. meeting (gathering of people for a purpose)
    Synonym: riunione

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ meeting in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

AnagramsEdit

PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting, from Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi.tiŋk/
  • Rhymes: -itiŋk
  • Syllabification: mee‧ting

NounEdit

meeting m inan

  1. Alternative spelling of mityng.

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

adjective

Further readingEdit

  • meeting in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • meeting in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.[1][2][3][4]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

meeting m (plural meetings)

  1. conference (a formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means)
    Synonym: conferência
  2. meeting, gathering (a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly)
    Synonym: encontro
  3. meet (a sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming)
    Synonym: prova

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ meeting” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
  2. ^ meeting” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
  3. ^ meeting” in iDicionário Aulete.
  4. ^ meeting” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting. Doublet of mitin.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

meeting m (plural meetings)

  1. meeting

Usage notesEdit

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.