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单词 meeting
释义

meeting

See also: Meeting

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmiːtɪŋ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmitɪŋ/, [ˈmiɾɪŋ]
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
  • Homophone: meting

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

meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)

  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.
    • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      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)
  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.
    • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, p. 20:
      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.
  7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
    Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
Usage notes
  • When "meeting" is used to mean a Quaker administrative group, it is often qualified by an indication of how often the group holds regular business meetings, such as "monthly meeting", "quarterly meeting", or "yearly meeting". When the qualifier is omitted, the term is assumed to mean monthly meeting.
Synonyms
  • assembly
  • convocation
  • gathering
  • meet-up
Hyponyms
  • annual general meeting
  • board meeting
  • fringe meeting
  • monthly meeting
  • prayer meeting
  • race meeting
Derived terms
Terms derived from meeting (noun)
  • board meeting
  • meetinghouse
  • meeting of the minds
  • meeting place
  • meeting room
  • Sunday-go-to-meeting
Descendants
Descendants of meeting in other languages
  • Belizean Creole: meetn
  • → Bulgarian: митинг (miting)
  • Bislama: miting
  • → Catalan: míting
  • → Crimean Tatar: miting
  • → Czech: meeting, mítink
  • → French: meeting
  • → Galician: mitin
  • → Italian: meeting
  • → Japanese: ミーティング
  • Krio: meeting
  • → Kriol: miding, miting
  • → Macedonian: митинг (miting)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: میتینغ‎ (miting)
    • Turkish: miting
  • Pijin: miting
  • → Polish: myting
  • → Portuguese: meeting
  • → Russian: ми́тинг (míting), ми́тингъ (míting)
    • → Armenian: միտինգ (miting)
    • → Azerbaijani: mitinq
    • → Georgian: მიტინგი (miṭingi)
    • → Kazakh: митинг (miting)
    • → Kyrgyz: митинг (miting)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: miting / митинг
  • → Spanish: meeting, mitin, mitín
  • → Tagalog: miting
  • Tok Pisin: miting
  • Torres Strait Creole: miting
Translations
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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

meeting

  1. present participle of meet

Anagrams

  • teeming

Czech

Alternative forms

  • mítink

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmiːtɪŋk]

Noun

meeting m

  1. meeting

Further reading

  • meeting in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • meeting in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.tiŋ/

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

  1. large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")
    un meeting aérien
    an air show

Further reading

  • “meeting”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  • “meeting” in Cordial.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi.tinɡ/, /ˈmi.tin/[1]
  • Rhymes: -itinɡ, -itin
  • Hyphenation: mee‧ting

Noun

meeting m (invariable)

  1. meeting (gathering of people for a purpose)
    Synonym: riunione

References

  1. meeting in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

  • mingete

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting, from Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi.tiŋk/
  • Rhymes: -itiŋk
  • Syllabification: mee‧ting

Noun

meeting m inan

  1. Alternative spelling of mityng.

Declension

Declension of meeting
singularplural
nominativemeetingmeetingi
genitivemeetingumeetingów
dativemeetingowimeetingom
accusativemeetingmeetingi
instrumentalmeetingiemmeetingami
locativemeetingumeetingach
vocativemeetingumeetingi

Derived terms

adjective
  • meetingowy

Further reading

  • meeting in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • meeting in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • mítingue (prescriptive)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting.[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmi.t͡ʃĩ/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tĩɡ/

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

  1. conference (a formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means)
    Synonym: conferência
  2. meeting, gathering (a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly)
    Synonym: encontro
  3. meet (a sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming)
    Synonym: prova

References

  1. “meeting” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
  2. “meeting” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
  3. “meeting” in iDicionário Aulete.
  4. “meeting” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English meeting. Doublet of mitin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmitin/ [ˈmi.t̪ĩn]
  • Rhymes: -itin

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

  1. meeting

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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