Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
meeting (noun)1.
an act or process of coming together as
a) an assembly for a common purpose (as worship)
b) a session of horse or dog racing
2.
a permanent organizational unit of the Society of Friends
3.
- intersection junction
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
meeting (noun)1.
a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose
SYNONIMS:
assembly, congress, convention, convocation, council, gathering, get-together, huddle, powwowRELATED WORDS:
clinic, workshop; cabinet, caucus, conclave, synod; demonstration, rally; confab, conversation, dialogue ( dialog), discourse, discussion, palaver, talk; negotiation, parley, summit; conference, forum, round-robin, roundtable, seminar, symposium; audience, interview, session2.
a body of people come together in one place
SYNONIMS:
assemblage, assembly, conference, congregation, convocation, ingathering, meeting, musterRELATED WORDS:
company, consort, coterie, gang, pack; caucus, forum, market, panel, rally, symposium, synod; audience, gallery, grandstand, house; crowd, flock, horde, legion, multitude, press, swarm, throng; crush, mob, rabble, rabblement3.
the coming together of two or more things to the same point
SYNONIMS:
confluence, conjunction, convergency, meetingRELATED WORDS:
combination, combining, connecting, connection, consolidation, coupling, joining, junction, juncture, linking, merging, unification, union