| merging meeting coming together | the act of joining together as one, the merging of the two groups occurred quickly, there was no meeting of minds |
prayer meeting
prayer service | a service at which people sing hymns and pray together |
prayer
supplication | the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving), the priest sank to his knees in prayer |
meeting
coming together | the social act of assembling for some common purpose, his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day |
forum
assembly meeting place | a public facility to meet for open discussion |
place of worship
house of prayer
house of God
house of worship | any building where congregations gather for prayer |
prayer rug
prayer mat | a small rug used by Muslims during their devotions |
prayer shawl
tallith
tallis | (Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner, worn by Jews at morning prayer |
rosary
prayer beads | a string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics) |
prayer book
prayerbook | a book containing prayers |
| prayer wheel | a cylinder with prayers written on it, each revolution counts as uttering the prayers, used especially by Buddhists in Tibet |
| prayer | a fixed text used in praying |
Evening Prayer
evensong | (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer |
| Book of Common Prayer | the Anglican service book of the Church of England, has had several revisions since the Reformation and is widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language |
| Lord's Prayer | the prayer that Christ gave his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew :-) |
| Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children | an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel |
entreaty
prayer
appeal | earnest or urgent request, an entreaty to stop the fighting, an appeal for help, an appeal to the public to keep calm |
| prayer petition orison | reverent petition to a deity |
meeting
encounter | a casual or unexpected convergence, he still remembers their meeting in Paris, there was a brief encounter in the hallway |
meet
sports meeting | a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held |
| race meeting | a regular occasion on which a number of horse races are held on the same track, the Epsom race meeting was an important social event |
meeting
group meeting | a formally arranged gathering, next year the meeting will be in Chicago, the meeting elected a chairperson |
board meeting
committee meeting | a meeting for administrative purposes |
| camp meeting | religious (usually evangelistic) meeting held in a large tent or outdoors and lasting several days |
| stockholders meeting | a meeting at which the management reports to the stockholders of a company |
| meeting get together | a small informal social gathering, there was an informal meeting in my living room |
| town meeting | government of a town by an assembly of the qualified voters |
summit
summit meeting | a meeting of heads of governments |
| town meeting | a meeting of the inhabitants of a town |
rally
mass meeting | a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm |
luncheon meeting
lunch meeting | a meeting for lunch, usually to conduct business while eating |
revival
revival meeting | an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion |
confluence
meeting | a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers), Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers |
prayer
supplicant | someone who prays to God |
meeting house
honeysuckle Aquilegia canadensis | columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers |
concurrence
meeting of minds | a state of cooperation |
| sense of the meeting | general agreement reached by an assembled group, no vote was taken, but after each discussion the chair summed up the sense of the meeting |
matins
morning prayer | the first canonical hour, at daybreak |
go-to-meeting(a)
Sunday-go-to-meeting(a) | used of clothing, my good clothes, her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes |