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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meet \meet\ m=et, v. t. imp.  p. p. met me^t; p. pr.
    vb. n. meeting. oe. meten, as. m=etan, fr. m=ot,
   gem=ot, a meeting; akin to os. m=otian to meet, icel.
   maeta, goth. gam=otjan. see moot, v. t.
   1. to join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact
      with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon
      or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact
      by following and overtaking.
      1913 webster

   2. to come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to
      encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated
      them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
      1913 webster

   3. to come into the presence of without contact; to come
      close to; to intercept; to come within the perception,
      influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a
      junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to
      meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear.
      1913 webster

            his daughter came out to meet him.    --judg. xi.
                                                  34.
      1913 webster

   4. to perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal
      acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye
      met a horrid sight; he met his fate.
      1913 webster

            of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst,
            which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   5. to come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to
      satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the
      supply meets the demand.
      1913 webster

   to meet half way, literally, to go half the distance
      between in order to meet one; hence, figuratively, to
      yield or concede half of the difference in order to effect
      a compromise or reconciliation with.
      1913 webster
see also:
met meeting moot to meet half way 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meeting \meet"ing\ m=et"i^ng, n.
   1. a coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of
      congress.
      1913 webster

   2. a junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the
      roads or of two rivers.
      1913 webster

   3. a congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as,
      a large meeting; an harmonious meeting.
      1913 webster

   4. an assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on sunday;
      -- in england, applied distinctively and disparagingly to
      the worshiping assemblies of dissenters.
      1913 webster

   syn: conference; assembly; company; convention; congregation;
        junction; confluence; union.
        1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
meeting
     n 1: a formally arranged gathering; "next year the meeting will
          be in chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson"
     2: the social act of assembling for some common purpose; "his
        meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day"
        syn: coming together
     3: a small informal social gathering; "there was an informal
        meeting in my livingroom" syn: get together
     4: a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers
        their meeting in paris"; "there was a brief encounter in
        the hallway" syn: encounter
     5: the act of joining together as one; "the merging of the two
        groups occurred quickly"; "there was no meeting of minds"
        syn: merging, coming together
     6: a place where things merge or flow together especially
        rivers; "pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the
        allegheny and monongahela rivers" syn: confluence
see also:
coming together get together encounter merging confluence 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
342 moby thesaurus words for "meeting":
   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, parley, party, percussion, piled, place of assignation,
   plenum, pourparler, powwow, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting,
   prayers, press conference, prime, prime song, prom, public worship,
   quorum, radial, radiating, radius, rally, ramming, reception,
   rencontre, rendezvous, revival, revival meeting, rubbing,
   saprophytic, seance, service, session, sext, shindig, shock,
   sideswipe, sit-in, sitting, sledgehammering, smash, smash-up,
   smashing, soiree, splice, spokes, stacked, summit,
   summit conference, summitry, symbiosis, symbiotic, symposium,
   synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, synod, tangent,
   tangential, tent meeting, test, thrusting, tie, tie-in, tie-up,
   tierce, tilt, touching, tournament, tourney, trial, tryst, turnout,
   undersong, unification, union, united, uniting, vesper, vespers,
   vigils, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, whomp,
   wrapped up, yoking





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Meeting House >> M Words
Meeting House, definition of term: Meeting House
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Camp Meeting >> C Words
Camp Meeting, definition of term: Camp Meeting
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Town Meeting >> T Words
Town Meeting, definition of term: Town Meeting
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Meeting Of Mind >> M Words
Meeting Of Mind, definition of term: Meeting Of Mind
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