English Explanatory Dictionary

meet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
  2. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
  3. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
  4. To get acquainted with someone.
  5. To come together.
  6. To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
  7. To come together in conflict.
  8. To play a match.
  9. To make physical or perceptual contact.
  10. To converge and finally touch or intersect.
  11. To touch or hit something while moving.
  12. To adjoin, be physically touching.
noun
  1. A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
  2. A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
  3. A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
  4. A meeting.
  5. The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
adj
  1. Suitable; right; proper.
  2. Submissive; passive.

Pronunciation

mēt /miːt/ en-uk-to meet.ogg /mit/ en-us-meet.ogg

Word forms

meet meets meeting met meeter meetest mete

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”). Cognates 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.

Antonyms

pass join

Derived words

bemeet boy meets girl countermeet counter-meet hail-fellow-well-met hail fellow well met have you met me make both ends meet make ends meet meetable meet and greet meet-and-greet meet a sticky end meetaversary meet cute meet-cute meetee meeten meet halfway meet me at McDonald's meet me at McDonald's haircut meet-meat merger meet-me room meet one's doom meet one's end meet one's maker meet one's match meet one's Waterloo meet someone where they are meet up meet with mismeet more than meets the eye never meet your heroes never the twain shall meet nice to meet you one should never meet one's heroes pleased to meet you remeet the rubber meets the road until we meet again watersmeet well met when two Sundays meet cornfield meet cute meet dual meet e-meet field meet fleshmeet flying meet furmeet meet market meet-up meetup prairie meet premeet quad meet swap meet swapmeet
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