meeting

English Online Dictionary. What means meeting‎? What does meeting mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmitɪŋ/, [ˈmiɾɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
• Homophone: meting

Etymology 1

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”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.

Noun

meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)

1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.

2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
   • 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.

3. (collective) The people at such a gathering.

4. An encounter between people, even accidental.

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

6. (rustic US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Usage notes

• 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 2

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

meeting

1. present participle and gerund of meet

Anagrams

• teeming

Czech

Alternative forms

• mítink

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmiːtɪŋk]

Noun

meeting m inan

1. meeting

Declension

Further reading

• “meeting”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “meeting”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “meeting”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

Pronunciation

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings, diminutive meetinkje n)

1. (informal) meeting

   Synonym: vergadering

   Ik kon niet terugbellen, aangezien ik in een meeting zat. ― I couldn't call back, as I was in a meeting.

Usage notes

• Particularly used in office and business contexts.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.tiŋ/

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")

Further reading

• “meeting”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “meeting” in Cordial.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tinɡ/, /ˈmi.tin/
• Rhymes: -itinɡ, -itin
• Hyphenation: mee‧ting

Noun

meeting m (invariable)

1. meeting (gathering of people for a purpose)

   Synonym: riunione

References

Anagrams

• mingete

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

meeting m inan (related adjective meetingowy)

1. (literary) Alternative form of mityng

Declension

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• mítingue (prescriptive)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

References

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting. Doublet of mitin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmitin/ [ˈmi.t̪ĩn]
• Rhymes: -itin

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. meeting

Usage notes

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.