meeting
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmiːtɪŋ/Category:English 2-syllable words#MEETINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MEETING
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmitɪŋ/, [ˈmiɾɪŋ]Category:English 2-syllable words#MEETINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MEETING
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#MEETINGAudio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iːtɪŋCategory:Rhymes:English/iːtɪŋ#MEETINGCategory:Rhymes:English/iːtɪŋ/2 syllables#MEETING
- Homophone: metingCategory:English terms with homophones#MEETING
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#MEETINGCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#MEETING meeting, meting, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#MEETINGCategory:English terms derived from Old English#MEETING mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing (gerund noun)#MEETING. 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)Category:English lemmas#MEETINGCategory:English nouns#MEETINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#MEETINGCategory:English countable nouns#MEETINGCategory:English countable nouns#MEETINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MEETINGCategory:Pages with entries#MEETINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#MEETING
- (gerund, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#MEETING) The act of persons or things that meet.
- Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEETING
- A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
- Synonym: powwow
- We need to have a meeting about that soon.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEETING
- 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.
- (collectiveCategory:English collective nouns#MEETING) The people at such a gathering.
- What has the meeting decided.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEETING
- An encounter between people, even accidental.
- They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEETING
- A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
- Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEETING
- (rusticCategory:English rustic terms#MEETING USCategory:American English#MEETING, datedCategory:English dated terms#MEETING) 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.Category:English terms with quotations#MEETING
- (QuakerismCategory:en:Quakerism#MEETING) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
- Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEETING
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.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- approximeeting
- area meeting
- board meeting
- captive audience meeting
- counter-meeting
- countermeeting
- e-meeting
- experience meeting
- extraordinary general meeting
- fanmeeting
- field meeting
- flag meeting
- go-to-meeting
- kick-off meeting, kick off meeting, kickoff meeting
- meetinghouse, meeting house
- meetingitis
- Meeting Lake
- meetingless
- meetinglike
- meeting of the mindless
- meeting of the minds, meeting of minds
- meeting place
- meeting recovery syndrome
- meeting room
- meeting seed
- merrymeeting
- merry-meeting
- midmeeting
- mismeeting
- monster meeting
- nonmeeting
- overflow meeting
- postmeeting
- premeeting
- revival meeting
- select meeting
- shareholders' meeting
- stand-up meeting
- submeeting
- Sunday-go-to-meeting
- Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
- telemeeting
- tent meeting
- tone meeting
- town meeting
- unmeeting
- virtual meeting
- watch meeting
Descendants
- 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-1918 spelling
- → Serbo-Croatian: miting / митингCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms with redundant script codes#MEETING
- → Spanish: meeting, mitin, mitín
- → Tagalog: miting
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#MEETINGCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#MEETING metynge, metinde, metand, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#MEETINGCategory:English terms derived from Old English#MEETING mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#MEETINGCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MEETING *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MEETING *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing (participial)#MEETING.
Verb
meetingCategory:English non-lemma forms#MEETINGCategory:English verb forms#MEETINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MEETINGCategory:Pages with entries#MEETINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#MEETING
- present participle and gerund of meet
Anagrams
Czech
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Czech terms borrowed from English#MEETINGCategory:Czech terms derived from English#MEETING meeting.
Pronunciation
Noun
meeting m inanCategory:Czech lemmas#MEETINGCategory:Czech nouns#MEETINGCategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#MEETINGCategory:Czech masculine nouns#MEETINGCategory:Czech inanimate nouns#MEETINGCategory:Pages with entries#MEETINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#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), 2008–2026
Dutch
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from English#MEETINGCategory:Dutch unadapted borrowings from English#MEETINGCategory:Dutch terms derived from English#MEETING meeting.
Pronunciation
Noun
meeting m (plural meetings, diminutive meetinkje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#MEETINGCategory:Dutch nouns#MEETINGCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#MEETINGCategory:Dutch nouns with red links in their headword lines#MEETINGCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#MEETINGCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#MEETINGCategory:Pages with entries#MEETINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#MEETING
- (informalCategory:Dutch informal terms#MEETING) meeting
- Synonym: vergadering
- Ik kon niet terugbellen, aangezien ik in een meeting zat. ― I couldn't call back, as I was in a meeting.Category:Dutch terms with usage examples#MEETING
Usage notes
- Particularly used in office and business contexts.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:French terms borrowed from English#MEETINGCategory:French terms derived from English#MEETING meeting.
Pronunciation
Noun
meeting m (plural meetings)Category:French lemmas#MEETINGCategory:French nouns#MEETINGCategory:French countable nouns#MEETINGCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#MEETINGCategory:French masculine nouns#MEETINGCategory:Pages with entries#MEETINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#MEETING
- large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")
- un meeting aérien
- an air show
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 EnglishCategory:Italian terms borrowed from English#MEETINGCategory:Italian unadapted borrowings from English#MEETINGCategory:Italian terms derived from English#MEETING meeting.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmi.tinɡ/, /ˈmi.tin/[1]Category:Italian 2-syllable words#MEETINGCategory:Italian 2-syllable words#MEETINGCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#MEETING
- Rhymes: -itinɡ, -itinCategory:Rhymes:Italian/itinɡ#MEETINGCategory:Rhymes:Italian/itinɡ/2 syllables#MEETINGCategory:Rhymes:Italian/itin#MEETINGCategory:Rhymes:Italian/itin/2 syllables#MEETING
- Hyphenation: mee‧ting
Noun
meeting m (invariable)Category:Italian lemmas#MEETINGCategory:Italian nouns#MEETINGCategory:Italian countable nouns#MEETINGCategory:Italian indeclinable nouns#MEETINGCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#MEETINGCategory:Italian masculine nouns#MEETINGCategory:Pages with entries#MEETINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#MEETING
References
- ↑ meeting in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Category:Polish terms derived from Middle English#MEETINGCategory:Polish terms derived from Old English#MEETINGUnadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Polish terms borrowed from English#MEETINGCategory:Polish unadapted borrowings from English#MEETINGCategory:Polish terms derived from English#MEETING meeting.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmi.tiŋk/Category:Polish 2-syllable words#MEETINGCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#MEETING
- Rhymes: -itiŋkCategory:Rhymes:Polish/itiŋk#MEETINGCategory:Rhymes:Polish/itiŋk/2 syllables#MEETING
- Syllabification: mee‧ting
Noun
meeting m inan (related adjective meetingowy)Category:Polish lemmas#MEETINGCategory:Polish nouns#MEETINGCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#MEETINGCategory:Polish masculine nouns#MEETINGCategory:Polish inanimate nouns#MEETINGCategory:Pages with entries#MEETINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#MEETING
- (literaryCategory:Polish literary terms#MEETING) 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
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Portuguese terms borrowed from English#MEETINGCategory:Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English#MEETINGCategory:Portuguese terms derived from English#MEETING meeting.[1][2][3][4]
Pronunciation
Noun
meeting m (plural meetings)Category:Portuguese lemmas#MEETINGCategory:Portuguese nouns#MEETINGCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#MEETINGCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#MEETINGCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#MEETINGCategory:Pages with entries#MEETINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#MEETING
- 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
- ↑ “meeting”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- ↑ “meeting”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- ↑ “meeting”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- ↑ “meeting”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from English#MEETINGCategory:Spanish unadapted borrowings from English#MEETINGCategory:Spanish terms derived from English#MEETING meeting. Doublet of mitinCategory:Spanish doublets#MEETING.
Pronunciation
Noun
meeting m (plural meetings)Category:Spanish lemmas#MEETINGCategory:Spanish nouns#MEETINGCategory:Spanish countable nouns#MEETINGCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#MEETINGCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#MEETINGCategory:Pages with entries#MEETINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#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.