Meeting

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Meet.

II. Meeting ·noun A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.

III. Meeting ·noun A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.

IV. Meeting ·noun A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting.

V. Meeting ·noun An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday;

— in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.

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