convention
Convention or venue will work.
meeting means having a small gathering with a group of people for important matters!!
Forum. The word is in use today as a meeting or site where people can exchange views.
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The noun 'meeting' is a word for:a public gathering of people for a specific purpose;two or more people coming together for a specific purpose;an encounter.
The word 'meeting' is abbreviated "mtg."
With over 250 languages in Australia, the indigenous people of Australia have different words for "meeting place". However, the name of Australia's capital, Canberra, is said to be derived from the aboriginal word for "meeting place". Some sources state that "Uluru" is also a word meaning "meeting place".
The local indigenous people were believed to use the word Kamberra in reference to the site where Canberra now stands. The word has always been thought to mean "meeting place". However, more recent evidence suggests it may actually be a corruption of the indigenous word "ngambri", taken from the indigenous people of the same name. There have been suggestions that this possibly means "a woman's cleavage".
Example sentence - The ethnicity of the people at the meeting were quite diverse.
If you're referring to a group of people meeting to discuss solemn matters, I'd say "convocation" or "council" even. If you're referring to two people meeting and feeling solemn together in meeting I'd refer to it as a confrontation. And then there is also "funeral" which is a pretty solemn meeting, I'd say.
Meeting = Hui or Huihuinga.
I think there are several words that are the antonyms of "meeting." Here are some examples that come to mind: "parting" "disbanding" "diverging" or "divergence" "dispersing" or "dispersal" "separating" or "separation" "splitting" There are surely others, but the best one to use depends on the context and your usage of the word.