meeting

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noun

meet·​ing ˈmē-tiŋ How to pronounce meeting (audio)
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1
: an act or process of coming together: such as
a
: a gathering of people for a common purpose (such as to discuss business)
specifically : an assembly for religious worship
a prayer meeting
b
: a situation or occasion when two people see or talk to each other
started dating soon after their first meeting
c
: a session of horse or dog racing
2
: a permanent organizational unit of the Society of Friends
3
: intersection, junction
the meeting of two rivers

meeting

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present participle of meet entry 1

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Noun 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
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Despite meeting or beating estimates, shares dropped as investors remained unimpressed. — Arjun Kharpal,kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 Changes include language that says a patron must request a meeting with the branch manager before submitting the reconsideration form, per the law. — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2026 Hammack voted to raise rates at the Fed’s last meeting in July, but she was outvoted by fellow members of the Federal Open Market Committee who wanted to keep them steady. — Brian Cheung, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2026 The findings were presented at ACS Fall 2026, the American Chemical Society’s fall meeting held in Chicago from August 23 to 27. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for meeting

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First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of meeting was in the 14th century

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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
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