meeting

1 a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose there will be another committee meeting next week to discuss the parish fair Synonyms assembly, congress, convention, convocation, council, gathering, get-together, huddle, powwow Related Words clinic, workshop; cabinet, caucus, conclave, synod; demonstration, rally; confab, conversation, dialogue (also dialog), discourse, discussion, palaver, talk; negotiation, parley, summit; conference, forum, round-robin, roundtable, seminar, symposium; audience, interview, session

2 a body of people come together in one place a meeting marked by no consensus of what needs to be done Synonyms assemblage, assembly, conference, congregation, convocation, ingathering, gathering, musterRelated Words company, consort, coterie, gang, pack; caucus, forum, market, panel, rally, symposium, synod; audience, gallery, grandstand, house; crowd, flock, horde, legion, multitude, press, swarm, throng; crush, mob, rabble, rabblement

3 the coming together of two or more things to the same point a meeting of two railroad lines Synonyms confluence, conjunction, convergency, convergenceRelated Words combination, combining, connecting, connection, consolidation, coupling, joining, junction, juncture, linking, merging, unification, unionAntonyms divergence