Meaning & use
meeting places
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“meeting places” is a form of “meeting place”.
Meaning
nounplural
Places where people regularly come together for a particular purpose, such as socializing, business, or worship.
Grammar: Always plural in this form; the singular is 'meeting place'.
Patterns
- meeting places for someone
- popular meeting places
The park and the library are popular meeting places for local teenagers.
Online forums have become important meeting places for people with rare diseases.
The city has many historic meeting places, including squares and coffee houses.
Word forms
| singular | meeting place |
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Common combinations
- popular meeting places
- The beach is one of the most popular meeting places in summer.
- meeting places for
- These cafes serve as meeting places for artists and writers.
- historic meeting places
- The tour visits several historic meeting places from the civil rights movement.
Synonyms and how they differ
- gathering places
- Very similar, but often suggests informal or social gatherings rather than organized meetings.
- rendezvous
- A more formal or literary word for a place where people arrange to meet.
Word family
- meeting place noun
- The singular form: a place where people meet.
Practice
Choose the correct sentence.
Choose one answer.
With the singular subject 'cafe', use the singular 'meeting place'. Option A mixes singular and plural; option C has subject-verb disagreement; option D omits the article 'a'.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “meeting places”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.