meeting

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈmiːtɪŋ/    /ˈmitɪŋ/|[ˈmiɾɪŋ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of persons or things that meet. gerund,uncountable
    — Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.
  2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly. countable,uncountable
    — We need to have a meeting about that soon.
  3. The people at such a gathering. collective,countable,uncountable
    — What has the meeting decided.
  4. An encounter between people, even accidental. countable,uncountable
    — They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence. countable,uncountable
    — Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  6. A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States. countable,dated,uncountable
    — 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.
  7. An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Quakerism,countable,uncountable
    — Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of meet form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

meetings plural

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing.
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