prayer meeting

[ prair ]

/ prɛər /

a meeting chiefly for prayer.

(in certain Protestant churches) a meeting in midweek, chiefly for individual prayer and the offering of testimonies of faith.

Also called prayer service.

Origin of prayer meeting

First recorded in 1810–20

The weekly prayer-meeting of the church is like the reunion of a large family.

Men of Our Times |Harriet Beecher Stowe
In the weekly prayer-meeting he has a word about the school, just enough to enlist their sympathies and their prayers.

The Sabbath-School Index |Richard Gay Pardee
She was expecting her beau to take her to evening prayer-meeting.

The Debtor |Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
How thankful she always felt that she had been brought to the prayer-meeting at Massa Bertram's that night.

Step by Step |The American Tract Society

I want some one to play the organ and lead the singing at prayer-meeting this winter.

Song of the Lark |Willa Cather

prayer meeting

/ (prɛə) /

mainly Protestantism a religious meeting at which the participants offer up prayers to God