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Gathering, any type of party or meeting, including: Bee (gathering), an old term which describes a group of people coming together for a task; Salon (gathering), a party associated with French and Italian intellectuals; Global gathering, a music festival in the United Kingdom; Rainbow Gathering; Ricochet Gathering, a music event in the United ...
A meeting refers to a gathering with a specific agenda and not just mere gathering of people casually talking to each other. [1] Meetings may occur face-to-face or virtually, as mediated by communications technology, such as a telephone conference call, a skyped conference call or a videoconference. One Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a ...
However, cognate terms and in approximately the same context are used in Estonia (talgu(d)), [22] Latvia (noun talka, verb talkot), and Lithuania (noun talka, verb talkauti). It is the cultural equivalent of communal work in a village community, although adapted to the conditions of Finland , where most families traditionally lived in isolated ...
A typical sign for the Stammtisch is a special ashtray An enamel Stammtisch sign in a bar in Munich The pennant of a usual Wikipedia Stammtisch (at Duisburg). A Stammtisch (German for "regulars' table", [1] [ˈʃtamtɪʃ]) is an informal group meeting held on a regular basis, and also the usually large, often round table around which the group meets.
Words with specific British English meanings that have different meanings in American and/or additional meanings common to both languages (e.g. pants, cot) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in American and British English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different meaning).
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
The root of the term is from the hypothetical Proto-Mongolic verb *kura-, *kurija-'to collect, to gather' [1] whence khural 'meeting, assembly' in Mongolic languages.From this same root arises the Mongolian word хурим khurim 'feast', which originally referred to large festive gatherings on the steppe, but it is now used mainly in the sense of 'wedding'.
Now referring to a social gathering, kiki developed as categorizations within different queer subcultures of ballroom culture as well as a mid-century American lesbian scene. The uses of this term thus all have historical ties to the LGBT community. [5] The word kiki first evolved from the French word meaning to “to choke” or “to throttle ...