meet
UK /miːt/ · US /mit/ verb, noun, adjective
Forms meets meeting met meeter meetest mete
- verb To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. “Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?”
- verb To come face to face with someone by arrangement. “Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.”
- verb To get acquainted with someone. “I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.”
- verb To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting. “I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.”
- verb To come together in conflict.
- verb (sports) To play a match. “England and Holland will meet in the final.”
- verb To converge and finally touch or intersect. “The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.”
- verb To touch or hit something while moving. “The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.”
- noun (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming. “track meet”
- noun (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- noun (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- noun (informal) A meeting. “OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.”
- noun (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- adjective (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
- adjective (obsolete) Submissive; passive.
Synonyms
sports meeting run into encounter run across come across see get together converge satisfy fill fulfill fulfil fit conform to match cope with gather assemble forgather foregather play take on receive suffer touch adjoin contact fitting
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”).
Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian meet, mätje, möt (“to meet”), West Frisian mette, moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Elfdalian my̨öt (“to meet”), Faroese møta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk møta, møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”). Related to moot.
From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz, *mētiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.
- verb To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
- verb To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle.
- verb To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.
Etymology [OE. meten, AS. m, fr. m, gem, a meeting; akin to OS. m to meet, Icel. mæta, Goth. gam. See Moot, v. t.]
Etymology [OE. mete fitting, moderate, scanty, AS. m moderate; akin to gemet fit, meet, metan to mete, and G. mässig moderate, gemäss fitting. See Mete.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “meet”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details