/mee"ting/ , n.
1. the act of coming together: a chance meeting in the park.
2. an assembly or conference of persons for a specific purpose: a ten o'clock business meeting.
3. the body of persons present at an assembly or conference: to read a report to the meeting.
4. a hostile encounter; duel.
5. an assembly for religious worship, esp. of Quakers.
6. See meeting house .
7. a place or point of contact; junction; union: the meeting of two roads; the meeting of the waters.
8. take a meeting , Informal. to hold, conduct, or participate in a meeting: The producer took a meeting with the cast of the film.
[ 1250-1300; ME; see MEET 1 , -ING 1 ]
Syn. 1. encounter; confrontation; rendezvous.