meeting
/ˈmitɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.15 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
Countable; Dated; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people."
- "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."
- "Before he left Glasgow on Tuesday to return to Washington on a late-evening flight, Mr. Biden hailed progress on multiple fronts from the second day of meetings with heads of state, including initiatives to reduce emissions from agriculture."
- "What has the meeting decided."
- "They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work."
Etymology
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”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: meeting, mēting, metynge, mētende, *mōtijandz, *mōtijaną
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmitɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈmiːtɪŋ/