meeting
/ˈmitɪŋ/ noun A1- 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.
- 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.
- A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
- An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). · Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
Plural meetings
From the library
“In that case,” said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, “I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies—”
Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the night of the Pack Meeting took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock--a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide.
“No, I didn’t,” said Anne solemnly, meeting Marilla’s angry gaze squarely.
Gilbert Blythe wasn’t used to putting himself out to make a girl look at him and meeting with failure.
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