Meeting

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Meet.

2. (n.) A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.

3. (n.) A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.

4. (n.) A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonious meeting.

5. (n.) An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.

Thesaurus Entries

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