different between audience vs meeting

English

Etymology

From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens (“hearing”), from verb audio (“I hear”). Doublet of audiencia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???di.?ns/

Noun

audience (plural audiences)

1. A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc. [from 15th c.]

   We joined the audience just as the lights went down.

2. (now rare) Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening. [from 14th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VII:

     When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.

3. A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
5. A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary. [from 16th c.]

6. The readership of a book or other written publication. [from 19th c.]

7. A following. [from 20th c.]

8. (historical) An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.

Usage notes

• In some dialects, audience is used as a plurale tantum.

  The audience are getting restless.

Synonyms

• hearership, listenership
• (large gathering of people watching a performance): spectators, crowd

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• audience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Audience (meeting) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French audience, borrowed from Latin audientia, from present participle audiens (“hearing”), from verb audio (“I hear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.dj??s/

Noun

audience f (plural audiences)

1. audience, viewer

Synonyms

• attention
• entretien
• séance

Derived terms

• salle d'audience

Related terms

• audimat
• audimètre
• auditeur, auditrice
• audition
• auditoire

Further reading

• “audience” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English audience, from Latin audientia, derived from audi?ns, present active participle of audi? (“I hear, listen to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.djens/
• Hyphenation: au?dience

Noun

audience f (uncountable)

1. audience (widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public)

Related terms

• udienza

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mit??/, [?mi???]
• Rhymes: -i?t??
• Homophone: meting

Etymology 1

From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English m?ting, ?em?ting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet +? -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.

Noun

meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)

1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.

2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.

   We need to have a meeting about that soon.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.

3. (collective) The people at such a gathering.

   What has the meeting decided.

4. An encounter between people, even accidental.

   They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.

5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.

   Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.

6. (rural US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, p. 20:

     You use ta give a good meetin'. I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.

7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

   Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

Usage notes

• When "meeting" is used to mean a Quaker administrative group, it is often qualified by an indication of how often the group holds regular business meetings, such as "monthly meeting", "quarterly meeting", or "yearly meeting". When the qualifier is omitted, the term is assumed to mean monthly meeting.

Synonyms

• assembly
• convocation
• gathering

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English m?tende, *?em?tende, from Proto-Germanic *m?tijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *m?tijan? (“to meet”), equivalent to meet +? -ing.

Verb

meeting

1. present participle of meet

Anagrams

• teeming

Czech

Alternative forms

• mítink

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mi?t??k]

Noun

meeting m

1. meeting

Further reading

• meeting in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• meeting in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ti?/

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")

   un meeting aérien

   an air show

Further reading

• “meeting” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi.tin?/, /?mi.tin/
• Hyphenation: mee?ting

Noun

meeting m (invariable)

1. meeting (gathering of people for a purpose)

   Synonym: riunione

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• mítingue (prescriptive)

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /?mi.t?.?(?)/, [?mi.t?.?(?)]

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. conference (a formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.)

   Synonym: conferência

2. meeting, gathering (a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.)

   Synonym: encontro

3. meet (a sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.)

   Synonym: prova

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mitin/, [?mi.t??n]

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. meeting