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 During virtual meetings, Brower and Simone, who are in their mid-30s, appeared on screen while Primrose lounged on their shoulders or heads. — Kyle Melnick The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026 At the meetings, families and staff will have an opportunity to review options and provide feedback. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026 Tice said the party had a series of high-level meetings with the government about security and that authorities had shifted their approach to treat threats more seriously. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026 In recent meetings, riders have expressed frustration with the agency’s decisions. — Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 On Tuesday, after returning from meetings in the United Arab Emirates, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood in front of an F-15 fighter jet and made a video warning that there might soon be an attack against Israel. — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026 The firm’s call came after holding client meetings with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and CFO Colette Kress. — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026 Together, those experiments helped generate 900% more sales meetings. — Matt Jayson, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for meetings

Noun

However, the holiday season tends to see a spike each year as people congregate for parties, celebrations and gatherings.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
Authorities in several parts of the country banned gatherings around the schools that were closed Friday, but the measure appears to have had little effect.

— Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of gatherings

Noun

In January, its investigators reported finding more than 100 hallucinated citations in papers accepted at NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI research conferences, as Fortune first reported.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
For this to happen, expanding the CFP, conferences will have to get rid of championship weekend.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 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

Knowles pointed to the growth of Canva’s annual Canva Create fan conventions as an example of how the importance of experiential events for brands.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Stylistically, the sequence injects noir with the conventions of music videos.

— Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of conventions

Noun

Anduril relies on Applied Aerospace to deliver the physical aircraft, supplying everything from the engine fuselage and main landing gear assemblies to the wings and horizontal stabilizers.

— Harvey Stober, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
The production model is designed to allow major components and assemblies to be manufactured before final vessel integration.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of assemblies

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