encounter

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Verb

1. (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
2. (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
3. (intransitive, rare) To meet one another.
4. (intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
5. (India, euphemistic, transitive) To kill or execute someone extrajudicially.

Noun

1. A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
2. A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
3. A match between two opposing sides.
4. A sexual encounter; sexual activity, especially unplanned or unexpected, between two people who have not already established a sexual relationship with each other. In many cases, it does not lead to a relationship, and thus is utterly transient. A sexual encounter can be consensual or non-consensual; in the latter case, it is known as sexual assault. A consensual sexual encounter that happens only once is commonly known as a one-night stand.
5. The period of a space mission during which it carries out its data-gathering objectives.
6. (India) An extrajudicial killing or execution.

Konzepte

treffen

Begegnung

begegnen

Treffen

Zusammenstoß

💥

Zusammentreffen

erreichen

ankommen

aufschlagen

durchsetzen

heranreichen

aushämmern

erlangen

einholen

peitschen gegen

ausklopfen

prasseln gegen

prügeln

reichen

schlagen gegen

erwirken

sich erstrecken

erzielen

finden

🔍

treffen auf

Gefecht

entgegentreten

hauen

Kampf

klopfen

konfiszieren

mit Beschlag belegen

perzipieren

schlagen

sich begegnen

sich versammeln

stoßen auf

Trainingsgruppensitzung

verbrühen

Verhältnis

wahrnehmen

Zusage

Zusammenhang

Zweikampf

auf treffen

auf zusammenstoßen

fangen

mit jemandem zusammenstoßen

Stoßen auf

Treffen auf

Synonyme

meet

come across

meeting

find

🔍

see

👀

face

run into

run across

confront

fight

clash

combat

meet with

hit

skirmish

strike

run up against

score

conflict

get

battle

experience

attain

catch

oppose

meet by chance

discover

attack

👊

rendezvous

brush

come upon

engagement

chance meeting

confrontation

bump into

arrive at

coming upon

reach

accomplish

play

war

take on

come up against

struggle

achieve

happen upon

resist

bump

contact

breast

Übersetzungen

rencontrer

encuentro

rencontre

incontrare

treffen

ontmoeten

incontro

trouver

🔍

encontrar

αντιμετωπίζω

tegenkomen

dar no alvo

acertar

συνάντηση

recontrer

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ɪnˈkaʊntə/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: encountren

In summary

From Middle English encountren, from Anglo-Norman encountrer, Old French encontrer (“to confront”), from encontre (“against, counter to”), from Late Latin incontrā (“in front of”) itself from Latin in (“in”) + contrā (“against”).