Meeting vs Assignation - What's the difference?
meeting | assignation | Synonyms |
(uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
An encounter between people, even accidental.
A place or instance of junction or intersection.
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.
An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
* Alexander Pope
The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
* Holland
A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
Meeting is a synonym of assignation.
As nouns the difference between meeting and assignation
is that meeting is (uncountable) the action of the verb to meet while assignation is an appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.As a verb meeting
is .meeting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- We need to have a meeting about that soon.
- What has the meeting decided.
- They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
- Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
Derived terms
* meetinghouse * meeting of the minds * meeting place * meeting room * race meeting * Sunday-go-to-meetingSynonyms
* assembly * convocation * gatheringDescendants
* Crimean Tatar: (l) (borrowed) * French: (l) (borrowed) * Russian: (borrowed) * Serbo-Croatian: (l)/ (borrowed) * Tagalog: (l) (borrowed)Statistics
*Anagrams
* ----assignation
English
Noun
(en noun)- While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
- 1749' ''As soon as Mr. Barville saw me, he got up, with a visible air of pleasure and surprize, and saluting me, asked Mrs. Cole if it was possible that so fine and delicate a creature would voluntarily submit to such sufferings and rigours as were the subject of his '''assignation . — John Cleland, ''
Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
- This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.