meet
//miːt//
Forms
- present (v1)
- meet
- past (v2)
- met
- past participle (v3)
- met
- present participle
- meeting
- 3rd person singular
- meets
- Plural
- meets
Definitions
1.To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
- Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
- José, I don't think you've met my friend Maria.
- Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
2.To come together.
- England and Holland will meet in the final.
- I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
3.To make physical or perceptual contact.
- The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
- He met every objection to the trip with another reason I should go.
- The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
4.To satisfy; to comply with.
- This proposal meets my requirements. The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
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.(informal)
- OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
- You feel me? You use these phones to set up a meet, go to that meet… and talk face to face, period.
- So what do you wanna do? I wanna be absolutely fucking sure. That's what I wanna do. We arrange a meet. I'll feel him out a little bit.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #294
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
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