Meeting (root: meet)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: meet=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Meeting, n. 

•  A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.  [1913 Webster]
•  A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.  [1913 Webster]
•  A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonious meeting.  [1913 Webster]
•  An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Conference; assembly; company; convention; congregation; junction; confluence; union.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Meeting, n.
1 in senses of MEET(1).
2 an assembly of people, esp. the members of a society, committee, etc., for discussion or entertainment.
3 = race meeting.
4 an assembly (esp. of Quakers) for worship.
5 the persons assembled (address the meeting).

Idiom

meeting-house a place of worship, esp. of Quakers etc.

THESAURUS

Meeting

Mass, Olympic games, Olympics, accompanying, accordant, accumulated, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, aggregation, agreeing, amassed, appointment, approach, approaching, appulse, articulation, assembled, assemblee, assembly, assignation, assignation house, associate, associated, asymptote, asymptotic, at home, at one with, audience, ball, bargaining, bargaining session, bedtime prayer, binding, bond, bottleneck, bout, bracketing, brawl, brunt, brushing, bulldozing, bulling, bump, bunched, bundled, camp meeting, cannon, carambole, carom, caucus, centripetal, centrolineal, church, church service, clash, clumped, clustered, clustering, coacting, coactive, coadunate, coincident, collaborative, collected, collective, collision, collision course, colloquium, collusive, combination, combinative, combined, combining, commission, committee, communication, competition, compline, concatenation, concentralization, concentration, concerted, conclave, concomitant, concordant, concours, concourse, concurrence, concurrent, concurring, concussion, confab, confabulation, conference, conflict, confluence, confluent, conflux, confocal, confrontation, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregate, congregated, congregation, congress, conjoint, conjugation, conjunction, conjunctive, connecting, connection, connectional, connective, connivent, consilient, conspiratorial, consultation, contacting, contest, contingent, conventicle, convention, convergence, converging, convocation, cooperant, cooperative, coordinate, copulation, copulative, council, council fire, council of war, coupling, coworking, crack-up, crash, crossing, crump, crunch, cumulate, dance, date, derby, devotions, diet, discussion, divine service, duty, eisteddfod, encounter, engagement, evening devotions, evensong, exchange of views, exercises, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, fascicled, fasciculated, festivity, fete, fight, focal, focalization, focus, forgathering, forum, funnel, game, games, gathered, gathering, get-together, glancing, glomerate, go, grazing, gymkhana, hammering, harmonious, heaped, high-level talk, hookup, housewarming, hub, huddle, impact, impingement, impingent, impinging, in contact, in session, interchange of views, intercommunicating, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, intersection, interview, joinder, joined, joining, joint, jointure, joust, junction, knotted, knotting, lauds, leagued, levee, liaison, linkage, linking, liturgy, love nest, lumped, marriage, massed, match, matching, matins, mauling, meet, meeting place, merger, merging, moot, morning devotions, mutual approach, mutually approaching, narrow squeak, narrowing gap, near thing, near-miss, negotiations, news conference, night song, none, nones, novena, nudging, office, onslaught, osculatory, packaged, pairing, palaver, panel, parasitic, parley, party, percussion, piled, place of assignation, plenum, pourparler, powwow, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, press conference, prime, prime song, prom, public worship, quorum, radial, radiating, radius, rally, ramming, reception, rencontre, rendezvous, revival, revival meeting, rubbing, saprophytic, seance, service, session, sext, shindig, shock, sideswipe, sit-in, sitting, sledgehammering, smash, smash-up, smashing, soiree, splice, spokes, stacked, summit, summit conference, summitry, symbiosis, symbiotic, symposium, synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, synod, tangent, tangential, tent meeting, test, thrusting, tie, tie-in, tie-up, tierce, tilt, touching, tournament, tourney, trial, tryst, turnout, undersong, unification, union, united, uniting, vesper, vespers, vigils, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, whomp, wrapped up, yoking

ROGET THESAURUS

Meeting

Junction

N junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Council

N council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative, council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff, senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim, classis, Amphictyonic council, duma, house of representatives, legislative assembly, legislative council, riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate, court of appeal, board of control, board of works, vestry, county council, local board, audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber, cabinet council, privy council, cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general, assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle, meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house, quorum, council fire, powwow, primary, meeting, assemblage, member, senator, member of parliament, M, P, councilor, representative of the people, assemblyman, congressman, councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder, senatorial, curule, congressional, parliamentary, legislative, law-making, regulatory, deliberative.

Contiguity

N contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition, abutment, osculation, meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence, adhesion, touching, (touch), borderland, frontier, tangent, abutter, contiguous, touching, in contact, conterminous, end to end, osculatory, pertingent, tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval.

Convergence

N convergence, confluence, concourse, conflux, congress, concurrence, concentration, convergency, appulse, meeting, corradiation, assemblage, resort, asymptote, converging, convergent, confluent, concurrent, centripetal, asymptotical, asymptotic, confluxible.

Arrival

N arrival, advent, landing, debarkation, disembarkation, reception, welcome, vin d'honneur, home, goal, goalpost, landing place, landing stage, bunder, resting place, destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport, terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal, journey's end, anchorage, return, remigration, meeting, rencounter, encounter, completion, recursion, arriving, homeward bound, here, hither, Int, welcome!, hail!, all Hail!, good-day, good morrow!, any port in a storm.