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. To make physical or perceptual contact.
11. To satisfy; to comply with.
12. 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. Suitable; right; proper.
2. Submissive; passive.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/miːt/

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 mete (“to meet”), West Frisian moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”). Related to moot.

Sentences

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