encounter

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

encuentro

encontrar

dar con

acertar

dar en

encontrarse

tropezar

golpear

conseguir

enfrentamiento

topar

enfrentarse

lograr

escaramuza

pegar

alcanzar

confiscar

conflicto

confrontación

conocer

convergencia

dar

encarar

encontrarse con

entrada

entrevista

escaldar

hallar

integración

acceso

llegar

percibir

percutir

recibir

relación

reunirse

sorprender

tener éxito

cara a cara

encontronazo

⚡

entrevistarse

pugna

roce

trifulca

comunicación ritual

pelea ceremonial anual

lucha en combate

jugar

aceptación

acercamiento

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

rencontrer

incontrare

rencontre

treffen

Begegnung

ontmoeten

treffen

incontro

trouver

🔍

αντιμετωπίζω

acertar

tegenkomen

dar no alvo

συνάντηση

recontrer

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɪnˈkaʊntə/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: 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”).