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say it: MEE-ting
meeting is a noun meaning "a formally arranged gathering". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a formally arranged gathering
“next year the meeting will be in Chicago”
“the meeting elected a chairperson”
a small informal social gathering
“there was an informal meeting in my living room”
a casual or unexpected convergence
“he still remembers their meeting in Paris”
“there was a brief encounter in the hallway”
the social act of assembling for some common purpose
“his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day”
“the lovers met discreetly for the purposes of sexual congress”
the act of joining together as one
“the merging of the two groups occurred quickly”
“there was no meeting of minds”
a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
“Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers”
river
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for meeting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.