# meeting
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈmiːtɪŋ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈmitɪŋ/, [ˈmiɾɪŋ]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
* Homophone: meting

### Etymology 1

From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet +‎ -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.

#### Noun

meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)
* (gerund, uncountable) 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.
** 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.
       Audio (US):(file)
* (collective) 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.
* (rustic US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
** 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, page 20:You use ta give a good meetin'. I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
* (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
    Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

##### Usage notes

* When "meeting" is used to mean a Quaker administrative group, it is often qualified by an indication of how often the group holds regular business meetings, such as "monthly meeting", "quarterly meeting", or "yearly meeting". When the qualifier is omitted, the term is assumed to mean monthly meeting.

##### Synonyms

* assembly
* convocation
* gathering
* meet-up

##### Hyponyms

* annual general meeting
* board meeting
* fringe meeting
* monthly meeting
* prayer meeting
* race meeting

##### Derived terms

* approximeeting
* area meeting
* board meeting
* captive audience meeting
* counter-meeting
* countermeeting
* experience meeting
* extraordinary general meeting
* fanmeeting
* field meeting
* flag meeting
* go-to-meeting
* kick-off meeting, kick off meeting, kickoff meeting
* meetinghouse, meeting house
* meetingitis
* meetingless
* meetinglike
* meeting of the mindless
* meeting of the minds, meeting of minds
* meeting place
* meeting recovery syndrome
* meeting room
* meeting seed
* merrymeeting
* merry-meeting
* midmeeting
* mismeeting
* monster meeting
* nonmeeting
* overflow meeting
* postmeeting
* premeeting
* revival meeting
* select meeting
* shareholders' meeting
* stand-up meeting
* submeeting
* Sunday-go-to-meeting
* Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
* telemeeting
* tent meeting
* tone meeting
* unmeeting
* watch meeting

##### Descendants

* Belizean Creole: meetn
* Bislama: miting
* Krio: meeting
* Pijin: miting
* Tok Pisin: miting
* Torres Strait Creole: miting
* → Australian Kriol: miding, miting
* → Bulgarian: митинг (miting)
* → Catalan: míting
* → Crimean Tatar: miting
* → Czech: meeting, mítink
* → French: meeting
* → Galician: mitin
* → Italian: meeting
* → Japanese: ミーティング
* → Korean: 미팅 (miting)
* → Latvian: mītiņš, (dated) mītings
* → Lithuanian: mitingas
* → Macedonian: митинг (miting)
* → Ottoman Turkish: میتینغ (miting)
** Turkish: miting
* → Persian: میتینگ (miting)
* → Polish: myting
* → Portuguese: meeting
* → Russian: ми́тинг (míting), ми́тингъ (míting) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
** → Armenian: միտինգ (miting)
** → Azerbaijani: mitinq
** → Georgian: მიტინგი (miṭingi)
** → Kazakh: митинг (mitiñ)
** → Kyrgyz: митинг (miting)
** → Yiddish: מיטינג (miting)
* → Serbo-Croatian: miting / митинг
* → Spanish: meeting, mitin, mitín
* → Tagalog: miting

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet +‎ -ing.

#### Verb

meeting
* present participle and gerund of meet

### Anagrams

* teeming

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* mítink

### Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmiːtɪŋk]

### Noun

meeting m inan
* meeting

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “meeting”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “meeting”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “meeting”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Dutch
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

meeting m (plural meetings, diminutive meetinkje n)
* (informal) meeting
    Synonym: vergadering
    Ik kon niet terugbellen, aangezien ik in een meeting zat. ― I couldn't call back, as I was in a meeting.

#### Usage notes

* Particularly used in office and business contexts.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi.tiŋ/

### Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)
* large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")
    un meeting aérienan air show

### Further reading

* “meeting”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* “meeting” in Cordial.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi.tinɡ/, /ˈmi.tin/
* Rhymes: -itinɡ, -itin
* Hyphenation: mee‧ting

### Noun

meeting m (invariable)
* meeting (gathering of people for a purpose)
    Synonym: riunione

### References

* ↑ meeting in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* mingete

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi.tiŋk/
* Rhymes: -itiŋk
* Syllabification: mee‧ting

### Noun

meeting m inan (related adjective meetingowy)
* (literary) Alternative form of mityng

#### Declension
### Further reading

* meeting in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* meeting in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* mítingue (prescriptive)

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmi.t͡ʃĩ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmi.tĩɡ/

### Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)
* conference (a formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means)
    Synonym: conferência
* meeting, gathering (a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly)
    Synonym: encontro
* meet (a sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming)
    Synonym: prova

### References

* ↑ “meeting”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “meeting”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* ↑ “meeting”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* ↑ “meeting”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting. Doublet of mitin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmitin/ [ˈmi.t̪ĩn]
* Rhymes: -itin

### Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)
* meeting

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.