meeting place
17
1.3
- noun
- /ˈmiːtɪŋ pleɪs/
:
punto de encuentro
- For these five days, the Place Milieu-Gamelin becomes a meeting place for street people who mingle with spectators.
- became a meeting place
- serves as a meeting place
- common meeting place
And, and they wouldn't tell us who the meeting place was until we landed.
- And, and they wouldn't tell us who the meeting place was until we landed.
- I would invest in walkable streets, parks, meeting places, aesthetically pleasing outdoors.
- And today the building is the Knopfel Centre, which is the central meeting place of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Examples
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The Garrick Club is the regular meeting place of his particular theatrical circle.
Fiction book (1990) -
Every Sunday, the community center serves as a meeting place for various clubs and activities.
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PAUL: Interesting choice for a meeting place.
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This shall be our meeting place.
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It's still in use as a market, a meeting place.
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Where is your meeting place?
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The meeting place is many hours away.
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The center serves as a meeting place where students can work on their assignments.
Academic text (1994) -
In short, it aspires to be a neighborhood meeting place for local people.
Academic text (2018) -
Tina and Edward's home became a meeting place for writers, artists, folksingers, bohemians, and politicians.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
430
3.2
A meeting or online place where people talk about ideas and share views
237
3.5
A place where a public event or meeting happens, like a concert
136
3.5
A building where people meet for public events
92
2.0
A room in an office where people meet to discuss work
62
6.5
A place where people agree to meet
8
2.3
A place where people meet regularly to talk and spend time
6
2.8
A building with rooms for meetings, talks, and events
3
2.7
A large room in a school or community centre where people gather for meetings and events
1
2.5
A place where people meet regularly to talk and spend time together
1
8.4
A simple building where people meet for religious services, often used by Quakers
1
9.9
A room where people meet to discuss ideas, often linked to the Last Supper
A building where people meet for conferences and meetings
A place where people regularly meet to talk and relax
How Formal
- US
6
2.8
3
2.7
237
3.5
17
1.3
- Informal
1
2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place where people gather for meetings' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'meeting' (a planned convening) with 'place' (a location). This noun+noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically frequent, so an average B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Meeting place comes from a simple picture: a meeting of people in a place such as a tavern or town square where they 'gather' and 'talk'. So, the term means 'a place where people gather for discussion or group activities'.