meeting

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of MEETING

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

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, meeting, muster

Related 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

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

Synonyms confluence, conjunction, convergency, meeting

Related Words combination, combining, connecting, connection, consolidation, coupling, joining, junction, juncture, linking, merging, unification, union

Antonyms divergence

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