MEETINGS Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

meetings

noun

plural of meeting

as in gatherings

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

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as in conferences

a body of people come together in one place a meeting marked by no consensus of what needs to be done

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as in confluences

the coming together of two or more things to the same point a meeting of two railroad lines

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divergences

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Recent Examples of meetings With a new school year underway, things like homework, back-to-school nights and PTA meetings are on all of our minds right now. — Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026 The residents occasionally gather in a disused rec center but the meetings devolve into rants about immigrants, junkies, thugs and vigilantism. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026 Garvaghy Road residents appealed to the Commission during a series of meetings this week not to allow the parade to pass their homes. — Amanda Ferguson Reuters, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026 The dinner capped a long, but friendly, day of meetings and celebrations, as the world’s two most powerful leaders seek to settle trade differences while simultaneously thawing the icy relationship between the United States and China. — Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026 The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, confirmed at least three meetings between UNRWA officials and the Palestinian committee this year, most recently this month. — Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Those are difficult and time-consuming meetings, but show the public is aware and involved. — Marci Woodward, Sun Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026 Meanwhile, the White House scheduled dozens of meetings with various groups. — Jason McLure — The Examination, STAT, 25 Sep. 2026 At the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of business, trips for students to Berkshire's annual meetings were always a hot ticket. — ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for meetings

Noun

To lay out the stakes, these hacker houses aren’t random gatherings.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 23 Sep. 2026
Over time, biscuits and sausage gravy have become a staple, appearing at restaurants and community gatherings, along with home kitchens.

— Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of gatherings

Noun

The organization hosts conferences, seminars and a mentoring program to help educators promote into leadership roles.

— Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Tokenization has spent most of its life as an insider’s topic, debated at conferences and written about in trade publications that never reach the people who decide where capital goes.

— Ivan Kan, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of conferences

Noun

Next came Chicago about a month later, and the internal-combustion convergences take place again on September 19 in New Jersey.

— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2026
The carbon released by tectonic rifts may have had a larger role in driving major climate transitions than that released by tectonic convergences.

— Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026

Definition of convergences

Noun

However, those conventions become much more meaningful when students understand the intellectual practices underneath them.

— Saurabh Anand, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2026
Users of classical psychedelics who underwent a major trip on the Fourth of July expressed reduced support for partisan political violence, whereas tripping around the time of the Democratic and Republican conventions increased it.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of conventions

Noun

The roadmap calls for Russia to help establish production in Iran of individual parts and assemblies for Russian aircraft.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
But even the regions that have adopted citizens’ assemblies are a long way off from achieving Landemore’s vision.

— Esther King, The Dial, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of assemblies

Noun

Turns out, though, what actually happened is that Nike offered the women about 20 different combinations of a uniform — with tops and bottoms of various lengths.

— Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
In some analyses involving individual elements or combinations of rare earths, the odds ratios exceeded 3 or even 4.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of combinations

Noun

Beginning in 1989, oil and acrylic paints gave way to olive oil, henna, tea, spices, and coffee, while animal glue, mud, and leather also shaped the group’s posters, paintings, and mixed-media assemblages.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Often these assemblages of items are tied together in a bundle or bag and may be referred to as hands, mojos, or gris-gris.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of assemblages

Noun

Melvoin also was curious about how much flexibility the district would have to rethink or cancel projects based on state funding decisions or decisions related to school closures or consolidations.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
The Boulder Valley School District is proposing a sweeping round of school closures and consolidations.

— Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026