Meeting
['miːtɪŋ] or ['mitɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the social act of assembling for some common purpose; 'his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day'.
(noun.) a casual or unexpected convergence; 'he still remembers their meeting in Paris'; 'there was a brief encounter in the hallway'.
(noun.) a formally arranged gathering; 'next year the meeting will be in Chicago'; 'the meeting elected a chairperson'.
(noun.) a small informal social gathering; 'there was an informal meeting in my living room'.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Meet
(n.) A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.
(n.) A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.
(n.) A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting.
(n.) An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.
Checker: Osbert
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Interview, encounter.[2]. Assembly, assemblage, congregation, concourse, gathering, company, collection of people.
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Examples
- Now, said she, that this first meeting is over, I feel perfectly easy. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I come,' returned the other, meeting his eye, 'from many countries. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I had quite depended upon meeting you there. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- She mused upon the meeting a considerable time. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Warren was to move to Parker's store, and Wilson's cavalry--then at Parker's store--to move on to Craig's meeting-house. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If they had only shown signs of meeting my advances halfway how well it might have been done! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It provided by a bill for a meeting of Parliament at least once in three years, whether the King summoned it or no. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It's my opinion, sir,' said Mr. Stiggins, unbuttoning his coat, and speaking very loudly--'it's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk, sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I look forward, my dear, to our meeting easily and without constraint on either side. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- So I should have done, had I not unfortunately happened to engage Boultby to sup with me on his way home from the Bible Society meeting at Nunnely. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Vicar, after a glass of port, was obliged to hurry away to a meeting, and the shy nephew, who appeared to be an invalid, was packed off to bed. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- On a certain day, when there was a board meeting of the company, I was to make an exhibition test. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To the theatre he went, and reached it just in time to witness the first meeting of his father and his friend. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But Mr. Bulstrode was taken so ill at the meeting on Thursday that I have not liked to leave the house. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As I saw she would go on, I thought it best to try to be serviceable to her by meeting the theme rather than avoiding it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Here is a man who has not forgotten an item in our meetings at Rainbarrow--he is in company with your husband. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It would have all ended in a regular standing flirtation, in yearly meetings at Sotherton and Everingham. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Haak from the German Palatinate was one of the earliest Fellows of the Society, and is even credited by Wallis wit h being the first to suggest the meetings of 1645. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As a speaker at charitable meetings the like of him for drawing your tears and your money was not easy to find. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Of very important, very recordable events, it was not more productive than such meetings usually are. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Their meetings were full of rapturous and romantic delight. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is impossible, indeed, to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- From this slight occasion sprang two meetings that I have now to tell of. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- These meetings were carried on with the greatest secrecy. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But we had repetitions of church and prayer-meetings; and so, of course, we were just as eligibly situated as we could have been any where. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I am the only man who knows of your meetings with him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These lectures proved remarkably popular, and for ten years he repeated them at the meetings of the Board of Agriculture. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It is here that directors' meetings are sometimes held, and also where weighty matters are often discussed by Edison at conference with his closer associates. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Sir Pitt that pattern of decorum, Sir Pitt who had led off at missionary meetings--he never for one moment thought of not going too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Rudolph in some way came to hear of these stolen meetings, and surprised Austin walking with Rose one June evening. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Editor: Rosanne