MEETING

[noun] [C]A meeting is an occasion when people come together intentionally or unintentionally.We have called a meeting of all members for Friday.Her last meeting with him before he died was by chance at Euston station.A chance (= unintentional) meeting with a publisher had helped his career.A meeting is also a sports competition.This will be the first time that she will have competed in an international meeting.A meeting can also be a group of people who have met for a particular purpose.The meeting wants to look at the proposal again.A meeting of minds is a situation when two or more people have the same opinions about something.Meeting house is the name used by Quakers (= a Christian group, also called Friends) for their place of worship.The Friends' Meeting Housean eighteenth-century Quaker meeting house