Definition of "meeting" in Englisch

noun

1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.

   • Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.

2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.

   • We need to have a meeting about that soon.
   • In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.

3. (collective) The people at such a gathering.

   • What has the meeting decided.

4. An encounter between people, even accidental.

   • They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.

5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.

   • Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.

6. (rustic US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.

7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

   • Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of meet