meeting
a formally arranged gathering
How often you will meet it
Rank 931 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 19,759 times across 173,849 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a formally arranged gathering also: group meeting next year the meeting will be in Chicagothe meeting elected a chairperson
- a small informal social gathering also: get together there was an informal meeting in my living room
- a casual or unexpected convergence also: encounter he still remembers their meeting in Paristhere was a brief encounter in the hallway
- the social act of assembling for some common purpose also: coming together, congress his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his daythe lovers met discreetly for the purposes of sexual congress
- the act of joining together as one also: merging, coming together the merging of the two groups occurred quicklythere was no meeting of minds
- a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) also: confluence Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers
meeting in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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At the last General Meeting of the L.C.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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Meeting Tom North's troubled glance, he grinned broadly.
The Riverman · Stewart Edward White · Chapter 1
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The name signifies "The Meeting of the Waters."
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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The joy of such a meeting was beyond words.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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No idler he; whoever else might shirk, He set his hand to every honest work,-- Farmer and teacher, court and meeting clerk.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1