meeting – English noun declension

English noun forms of meeting

Noun: meeting
Singularmeeting
Pluralmeetings

Sample 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. [2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)]
  • 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. [2021 November 2, Jim Tankersley, Katie Rogers, Lisa Friedman, quoting Joe Biden, “With Methane and Forest Deals, Climate Summit Offers Hope After Gloomy Start”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2022:]
  • What has the meeting decided.
  • They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  • Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  • 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:]
  • Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

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. See: Dutch Nouns 'ontmoeting', Danish Nouns 'møde', Swedish Nouns 'möte', Icelandic Nouns 'mót'.

Verbs referencing "meeting"

French Nouns meeting, Romanian Nouns miting, French Nouns mitaine, Polish Nouns spotkanie, Russian Nouns митинг, Finnish Nouns miitinki, German Nouns Meeting, Spanish Nouns mitín, Belarusan Nouns мітынг, Ukrainian Nouns мітинг, Catalan Nouns míting, English Nouns miting de avance, Latvian Nouns mītiņš.