# meeting

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmiːtɪŋ/ · frequency rank #736

## Definitions
1. The act of persons or things that meet.
2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
3. The people at such a gathering.
4. An encounter between people, even accidental.
5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
6. A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
7. An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **Messing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meeting-vs-messing)
- **melting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meeting-vs-melting)
- **mending** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meeting-vs-mending)
- **meetings** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meeting-vs-meetings)
- **metering** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meeting-vs-metering)
- **mating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mating-vs-meeting)
- **meaning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meaning-vs-meeting)

## Common misspellings (10)
`emeting`, `meeitng`, `meetign`, `meetingg`, `meetinng`, `meetnig`, `meetting`, `meteing`, `meting`, `mmeeting`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/meeting