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meeting (iou)



meeting noun.

A private or (now often) public gathering or assembly of people for entertainment, discussion, legislation, etc.; an assembly of people, esp. the Society of Friends, for worship; a Nonconformist congregation, esp. of the Society of Friends. Also, the people attending a meeting, collectively. OE.
L. R. Banks We had a meeting..to decide what to do. Friends' Quarterly We do require that the prospective member attend our Meetings. M. Spark Turning up once a month for a directors' meeting.
b. = race meeting s.v. RACE noun1. L17.
R. Dahl Amber Flash nearly beat him on three legs last meeting.
The action of MEET verb; the action or an act of coming together, encountering, assembling, etc. ME.
H. P. Brougham The peoples' right of Meeting in large bodies. H. Carpenter At a first meeting he would talk as if he had known you for years.
A duel. Formerly also, a fight, a battle. ME.
a. The junction, intersection, confluence, etc., of two or more things. LME.
T. Moore The Meeting of the Waters.
b. A joint in carpentry or masonry. M17.
= meeting-place below. poet. L16.
Shakespeare 1 Henry IV On Thursday we ourselves will march. Our meeting Is Bridgenorth.
Phrases: go to meeting attend a Nonconformist assembly for worship, esp. one of the Society of Friends. mass meeting: see MASS noun2 & adjective. mothers' meeting: see MOTHER noun1 & adjective. parents' meeting: see PARENT noun. preparative meeting: see PREPARATIVE adjective. protracted meeting: see PROTRACT verb 2. STATUTORY meeting. take the sense of the meeting: see SENSE noun. Yearly Meeting: see YEARLY adjective 2.
Comb.: meeting-house (a) a (private) house used for a meeting; (b) a place of worship (US or derog. exc. as used for meetings of the Society of Friends); (c) in Polynesia, a public hall; meeting-place (a) a place at which a meeting occurs; (b) = meeting-house (b) above.
? In sense 1 in Old English glosses only before E16.
meetinger noun (arch. derog.) a member of a Nonconformist congregation E19.