meeting
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
meeting
- (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, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190311070055/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/south-korea-proposes-rain-project-with-china-to-cut-pollution/4819207.html 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.
- 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.
- (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.
- 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, p. 20:
- (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
- Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
- Russian: встре́ча
- French: réunion
- German: Versammlung, Besprechung, Sitzung, Beratung, Zusammenkunft, Tagung
- Italian: riunione
- Portuguese: reunião
- Russian: собра́ние
- Spanish: reunión, junta, mitin
- German: Versammlung, Teilnehmer
- Portuguese: reunidos
- Russian: собра́ние
- French: rencontre
- German: Treffen, Zusammenkunft, Begegnung
- Italian: incontro
- Portuguese: encontro
- Russian: встре́ча
- Spanish: encuentro
- German: Treffpunkt
- Italian: incrocio
- Portuguese: encontro
- Russian: стык
- present participle of meet#English|meet
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