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race meeting

race meeting

3.6
A day when many horse races are held at one place
  • noun
  • UK
translation icon : reunión de carreras

Examples

  • Go to all the parties, race meetings, and balls, you'll be going to anyway.

    Bright Young Things (2003)

  • A large crowd gathered to place their bets at the race meeting held at the local track.

  • Many families attended the race meeting to enjoy the excitement of watching the horses compete.

  • The annual race meeting drew participants from across the country, showcasing some of the best horses in the region.

Synonyms

meet
vsrace meeting
112 3.1

An event with several sporting contests

is limited to events holding multiple horse contests at one venue on one date

How Big

championship
617 2.5
derby
68 3.9
race meeting
  • UK
3.6

Surface Forms

race meeting singular
race meetings plural

Morphology

race + meeting

The sense 'an event where races take place' follows directly from combining 'race' (a contest) with 'meeting' (a planned gathering), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a scheduled event consisting of races. The fact that it often specifically denotes horse-racing is a domain-specific extension but does not block compositional derivation, making the expression broadly transparent to B1 learners.

Etymology

The expression race meeting joins race and meeting. Race is the horse contest and meeting means a public 'gathering'. Imagine horses, riders and people all coming together in one place for a day of races, so it means 'an event with several horse races'.