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Meeting

noun

1.

A formally arranged gathering. Synonym: group meeting. "The meeting elected a chairperson"

2.

A small informal social gathering. Synonym: get together.

3.

A casual or unexpected convergence. Synonym: encounter. "There was a brief encounter in the hallway"

4.

The social act of assembling for some common purpose. Synonym: coming together.

5.

The act of joining together as one. Synonyms: coming together, merging. "There was no meeting of minds"

6.

A place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers). Synonym: confluence.

Meet

verb

(past & past part. met; pres. part. meeting)

1.

Come together. Synonyms: come across, encounter, run across, run into, see. "How nice to see you again!"

2.

Get together socially or for a specific purpose. Synonym: get together.

3.

Be adjacent or come together. Synonym: converge.

4.

Fill or meet a want or need. Synonyms: fill, fulfil, fulfill, satisfy.

5.

Satisfy a condition or restriction. Synonyms: conform to, fit.

6.

Satisfy or fulfill. Synonyms: cope with, match. "This job doesn't match my dreams"

7.

Collect in one place. Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, gather. "Let's gather in the dining room"

8.

Get to know; get acquainted with. "We met in Singapore"

9.

Meet by design; be present at the arrival of.

10.

Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle. Synonyms: encounter, play, take on. "Charlie likes to play Mary"

11.

Experience as a reaction. Synonyms: encounter, receive.

12.

Undergo or suffer. Synonym: suffer. "Suffer a terrible fate"

13.

Be in direct physical contact with; make contact. Synonyms: adjoin, contact, touch. "Their hands touched" , "The wire must not contact the metal cover" , "The surfaces contact at this point"

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"Meeting" Quotes from Famous Books

... the four Lodges[120] known to have taken part, only one—that meeting at the Rummer and Grape Tavern—had a majority of Accepted Masons in its membership; the other three being Operative Lodges, or largely so. Obviously, then, the movement was predominantly a movement of Operative Masons—or of men who had been Operative Masons—and not, as has been so often ...

— The Builders - A Story and Study of Masonry • Joseph Fort Newton

... nor'wester any moment now. The crowd abandoned her completely. Didn't even dream of auctioning her. Morgan and Raff persuaded them to put her up. They're a co-operative crowd, you know, an organized business corporation, fore and aft, all hands and the cook. They held a meeting and voted to sell." ...

— Adventure • Jack London

... all felt," said Lucile with equal earnestness, while Evelyn could not repress a chuckle at the memory of their first meeting with Jim. "Has ...

— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield

... 700 miles, without either of these articles. On his arrival at Melbourne with some members of his party the reception given to Landsborough and them by the public was so cordial that we consider the following report (taken from the Argus) of the meeting held to do them honour will ...

— Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria - In search of Burke and Wills • William Landsborough

... them very faithfully to him, that is, in ordinary plays and novels. Indeed he appeared to consider the real affairs of life in which he was concerned much in the light of a romance, and himself and his friends as so many personages acting in it, all meeting with marvellous adventures at every turn, and all endowed with admirable qualities, to which their petty frailties served only as foils. It is impossible in reading his memoirs to avoid smiling at the importance he attaches to very ordinary occurrences. I am not sure whether it was not this propensity ...

— Lives of the English Poets - From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of - Johnson's Lives • Henry Francis Cary

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