meet

Meaning

Verb

1. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
2. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
3. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
4. To come together.
5. To come together.
6. To come together.
7. To make physical or perceptual contact.
8. To make physical or perceptual contact.
9. To make physical or perceptual contact.
10. (transitive) To make physical or perceptual contact.
11. To satisfy; to comply with.
12. (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
13. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
14. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

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. (informal) A meeting.
5. The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

Adj

1. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
2. (obsolete) Submissive; passive.

Opposite of

pass, join

Synonyms

encounter

assemble

come across

see

👀

gather

find

🔍

satisfy

run into

receive

come together

join

congregate

fulfil

face

welcome

confront

rendezvous

greet

convene

fit

visit

get together

converge

fulfill

run across

get

contact

touch

suitable

come upon

fill

pick up

play

meet up with

fitting

abide

meet with

keep

match

execute

exercise

get to know

abide by

bump into

right

cope with

achieve

cover

perform

collide

Translations

rencontrer

incontrare

treffen

encontrar

ontmoeten

encontrar

encontrarse

se rencontrer

begegnen

التقى

réunir

sich treffen

se réunir

incontrarsi

اجتمع

Pronounced as (IPA)

/miːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: meten

Inherited from Old English: mētan

Cognate with Scots: met

Cognate with Northern Frisian: mete

Cognate with Western Frisian: moetsje

Cognate with Dutch: ontmoeten

Cognate with Low German: möten

Cognate with Danish: møde

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: møte

Cognate with Swedish: möta

Cognate with Icelandic: mæta

Inherited from Middle English: mete

Inherited from Old English: ġemǣte

Cognate with Dutch: meten

Cognate with German: gemäß

In summary

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.

Sentences

Mary told me that she got to meet up with you while she was back in San Francisco .

" You will , perhaps , meet me tomorrow in Geneva ," she said .

Perhaps , we could meet at the institute around noon since I have a few things I need to attend to first .

Before you meet the handsome prince you have to kiss a lot of toads .