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meeting
What does meeting mean?
meeting (noun): a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use meeting in a sentence?
- We need to have a meeting about that soon. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce meeting?
/ˈmitɪŋ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does meeting come from?
From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to meeting
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “meeting” mean?
a series of events leading to a result or product
Not quite: that's what process means.
the state or characteristic of being just or fair
Not quite: that's what justice means.
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
Not quite: that's what project means.
a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly
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