meeting
English
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmiːtɪŋ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmitɪŋ/, [ˈmiɾɪŋ]
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
- Homophone: meting
Etymology 1
editFrom 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
editmeeting (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)
- (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
editHyponyms
editDerived terms
edit- approximeeting
- area meeting
- area meeting
- board meeting
- captive audience meeting
- captive audience meeting
- countermeeting
- counter-meeting
- experience meeting
- extraordinary general meeting
- fanmeeting
- field meeting
- flag meeting
- go-to-meeting
- go-to-meeting
- kick-off meeting, kick off meeting, kickoff meeting
- meetinghouse, meeting house
- meetingitis
- meetingless
- meetinglike
- meeting of the minds, meeting of minds
- meeting place
- meeting recovery syndrome
- meeting room
- meeting seed
- merrymeeting
- midmeeting
- mismeeting
- monster meeting
- nonmeeting
- overflow meeting
- postmeeting
- premeeting
- revival meeting
- select meeting
- shareholders' meeting
- stand-up meeting
- stand-up meeting
- submeeting
- Sunday-go-to-meeting
- Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
- Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
- telemeeting
- tent meeting
- tent meeting
- tone meeting
- unmeeting
- watch meeting
Descendants
edit- Belizean Creole: meetn
- Bislama: miting
- Krio: meeting
- Pijin: miting
- Tok Pisin: miting
- Torres Strait Creole: miting
- → Australian Kriol: miding, 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)
- → Latvian: mītiņš, (dated) mītings
- → Lithuanian: mitingas
- → Macedonian: митинг (miting)
- → Ottoman Turkish: میتینغ (miting)
- Turkish: miting
- → Persian: میتینگ (miting)
- → Polish: myting
- → Portuguese: meeting
- → Russian: ми́тинг (míting), ми́тингъ (míting) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- → Serbo-Croatian: miting / митинг
- → Spanish: meeting, mitin, mitín
- → Tagalog: miting
Translations
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Etymology 2
editFrom 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
editmeeting
- present participle and gerund of meet
Anagrams
editCzech
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English meeting.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmeeting m inan
Declension
editFurther reading
editDutch
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English meeting.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editmeeting m (plural meetings, diminutive meetinkje n)
- (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
edit- Particularly used in office and business contexts.
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English meeting.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmeeting 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
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English meeting.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmeeting m (invariable)
References
edit- ^ meeting in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
editPolish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English meeting.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmeeting m inan (related adjective meetingowy)
Declension
editsingular | 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
editPortuguese
editAlternative forms
edit- mítingue (prescriptive)
Etymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English meeting.[1][2][3][4]
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
editmeeting 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
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English meeting. Doublet of mitin.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmeeting m (plural meetings)
Usage notes
editAccording 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.
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- en:Quakerism
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