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Meeting vs. Seminar — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Meeting and Seminar

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Meeting

A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments. Many various types of meetings exist.
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Seminar

A seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present is requested to participate.
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Meeting

The act or process or an instance of coming together; an encounter.
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Seminar

A course of study for a small group of students in a college or graduate school, often entailing research under the guidance of a professor.
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Meeting

An assembly or gathering of people, as for a business, social, or religious purpose.
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Seminar

The group of students in such a course.
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Meeting

The act of persons or things that meet.
Meeting him will be exciting.
I enjoy meeting new people.
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Seminar

A scheduled meeting of such a group.
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Meeting

A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
We need to have a meeting about that soon.
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Seminar

A meeting for an exchange of ideas; a conference.
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Meeting

(collective) The people at such a gathering.
What has the meeting decided.
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Seminar

A class held for advanced studies in which students meet regularly to discuss original research, under the guidance of a professor.
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Meeting

An encounter between people, even accidental.
They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
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Seminar

A meeting held for the exchange of useful information by members of a common business community.
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Meeting

A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
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Seminar

A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; - formerly called also seminary, now seldom used in this sense.
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Meeting

A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
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Seminar

Any meeting for an exchange of ideas
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Meeting

(Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
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Seminar

A course offered for a small group of advanced students
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Meeting

Present participle of meet
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Meeting

A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.
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Meeting

A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.
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Meeting

A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonious meeting.
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Meeting

An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; - in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.
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Meeting

A formally arranged gathering;
Next year the meeting will be in Chicago
The meeting elected a chairperson
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Meeting

The social act of assembling for some common purpose;
His meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day
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Meeting

A small informal social gathering;
There was an informal meeting in my livingroom
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Meeting

A casual or unexpected convergence;
He still remembers their meeting in Paris
There was a brief encounter in the hallway
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Meeting

The act of joining together as one;
The merging of the two groups occurred quickly
There was no meeting of minds
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Meeting

A place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers);
Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers
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