meeting

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”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.

noun

1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.
   Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.
2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
   We need to have a meeting about that soon.
   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) 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
3. (collective) The people at such a gathering.
   What has the meeting decided.
4. An encounter between people, even accidental.
   They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
   Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
6. (rural US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
   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. 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, page 20
7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
   Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

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

1. present participle and gerund of meet