meeting
meeting is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.
- 2.A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting.
- 3.An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abut
- abutment
- abuttal
- abutter
- action
- adhere
- adhesion
- adjoin
- amphitheater
- apposition
- appulse
- arena
- battle
- bear
- boxing
- camp
- campus
- canvas
- cause
- circus
- close
- cockpit
- coexist
- coexistence
- coincide
- coincidence
- come
- contact
- conterminous
- contiguity
- contiguous
- course
- end
- field
- frontier
- garden
- graze
- ground
- gymnasium
- hand
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is meeting.
- What is a junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers called?
- What is a congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting called?
- What is an assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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