Definition of "prayer-meeting" [prayer-meeting]

• A meeting for prayer; especially, a service devoted to prayer, sacred song, and other religious exercises, in which laymen take part. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "'Our poor church, 'she said to me, one night after prayer-meeting."
• "The spiritual "Stand by Me" opens as a minimalist meditation, with the vocalist's falsetto set against t he shimmer of Greg Leisz's pedal-steel guitar — but then the piano begins to rollick and a chorus swoops in with prayer-meeting fervor."
• "Normally calm and laid-back, Uncle Gib became rather nervous on prayer-meeting evenings and got through at least ten cigarettes in the preceding two or three hours."