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verb (used with object), met, meet·ing.

to come upon; come into the presence of; encounter: I would meet him on the street at unexpected moments.

to become acquainted with; be introduced to: I've never met your cousin.

to join at an agreed or designated place or time: Meet me in St. Louis.

to be present at the arrival of: to meet a train.

to come to or before (one's notice, or a means of noticing, as the eyes or ears): A peculiar sight met my eyes.

to come into the company of (a person, group, etc.) in dealings, conference, etc.

to face, eye, etc., directly or without avoidance.

to come into physical contact, juxtaposition, or collision with: The two cars met each other head-on at high speed.

to encounter in opposition, conflict, or contest: Harvard meets Yale next week in football.

to oppose: to meet charges with countercharges.

to cope or deal effectively with (an objection, difficulty, etc.).

to comply with; fulfill; satisfy: to meet a deadline; to meet a demand.

to pay in full: How will you meet expenses?

to come into conformity with (wishes, expectations, views, etc.).

to encounter in experience: to meet hostility.

verb (used without object), met, meet·ing.

to come together, face to face, or into company: We met on the street.

to assemble for action, conference, or other common purpose, as a committee, legislature, or class: The board of directors will meet on Tuesday.

to become personally acquainted.

to come into contact or form a junction, as lines, planes, or areas: The two lines meet to form an angle.

to be conjoined or united.

to concur or agree.

to come together in opposition or conflict, as adversaries or hostile forces.

noun

an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races: a track meet.

those assembled.

the place of such an assembling.

Mathematics. intersection(def 3a).

Verb Phrases

meet with,

to come across; encounter: to meet with opposition.
to experience; undergo; receive: The visitors met with courtesy during their stay.
to join, as for conference or instruction: I met with her an hour a day until we solved the problem.

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Idioms

meet cute, cute(def 6).

meet halfway,

to concede in part, as to the demands of an opposing faction; make concessions, as to another person; compromise: Despite their differences, the union and the company finally agreed to meet halfway and settle their dispute.
to anticipate another's actions and conduct oneself accordingly.

well met, Archaic. welcome.

Origin of meet

before 900; Middle English meten, Old English gemētan; cognate with Old Norse mœta, Old Saxon mōtian. See moot¹

SYNONYMS FOR meet

7 confront.

8 join, connect, intersect, cross, converge, unite.

17 collect.

23 contest, competition.

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ANTONYMS FOR meet

17 adjourn, scatter.

19 diverge.

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Related formsmeet·er, noun

Can be confusedmeat meet

Definition for meet (2 of 2)

meet

[ meet ]

/ mit /

adjective

suitable; fitting; proper.

Origin of meet

before 1000; Middle English mete, aphetic variant (see y-) of imete; representing Old English gemǣte suitable, cognate with German gemäss conformable

SYNONYMS FOR meet

apt, appropriate.

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Related formsmeet·ness, noun

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Examples from the Web for meet

On Tuesday, President Obama will meet with Enrique Peña Nieto, the President of Mexico.
Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting|Ruben Navarrette Jr.|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
When we meet them, their lives are unfulfilled, and at no point are we convinced their condition will change.
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I meet Otis J. the night he arrives at “The Castle,” a West Harlem halfway house for newly-released convicts.
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She was gonna be in New York and wanted to hang around for New Years and hopefully be able to stay long enough to meet our baby.
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But the current pontiff, for reasons one might fully understand, declined to meet the would-be papal assassin.
Pope-Shooter Ali Agca’s Very Weird Vatican Visit|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If she only knew what day Jimmy was to be in Washington she could arrange to meet him there.
The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware|Annie Fellows Johnston
You have fifteen rum-shops to meet before you get back to your wife and child.
A Singular Life|Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
No doubt exists with us now that the Shore Lark breeds here; we meet with them very frequently.
Audubon and his Journals, Volume I (of 2)|Maria R. Audubon
We also meet with a pentatonic order of intervals in which the Third is flat like in our diatonic minor scale.
Musical Myths and Facts, Volume II (of 2)|Carl Engel
I could not help wishing that I had gone with them, to share the difficulties and dangers they might meet.
The Wanderers|W.H.G. Kingston

British Dictionary definitions for meet (1 of 2)

meet

/ (miːt) /

verb meets, meeting or met

(sometimes foll by up or ( US ) with) to come together (with), either by design or by accident; encounterI met him unexpectedly; we met at the station

to come into or be in conjunction or contact with (something or each other)the roads meet in the town; the sea meets the sky

(tr) to come to or be at the place of arrival ofto meet a train

to make the acquaintance of or be introduced to (someone or each other)have you two met?

to gather in the company of (someone or each other)the board of directors meets on Tuesday

to come into the presence of (someone or each other) as opponentsJoe meets Fred in the boxing match

(tr) to cope with effectively; satisfyto meet someone's demands

(tr) to be apparent to (esp in the phrase meet the eye)

(tr) to return or counterto meet a blow with another

to agree with (someone or each other)we met him on the price he suggested

(tr sometimes foll by with) to experience; sufferhe met his death in a road accident

to occur togethercourage and kindliness met in him

(tr) Caribbean to find (a person, situation, etc) in a specified conditionI met the door open

meet and greet (of a celebrity, politician, etc) to have a session of being introduced to and questioned by members of the public or journalists

noun

the assembly of hounds, huntsmen, etc, prior to a hunt

a meeting, esp a sports meeting

US the place where the paths of two railway trains meet or cross

meet-and-greet a session where a celebrity, etc, is introduced to or questioned by members of the public or journalists

Derived Formsmeeter, noun

Word Origin for meet

Old English mētan; related to Old Norse mœta, Old Saxon mōtian

British Dictionary definitions for meet (2 of 2)

meet

/ (miːt) /

adjective

archaic proper, fitting, or correct

Derived Formsmeetly, adverb

Word Origin for meet

C13: from variant of Old English gemǣte; related to Old High German māza suitability, Old Norse mǣtr valuable

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Word Origin and History for meet (1 of 3)

meet

Old English metan "to find, find out; fall in with, encounter; obtain," from Proto-Germanic *motjan (cf. Old Norse mæta, Old Frisian meta, Old Saxon motian "to meet," Gothic gamotijan), from PIE root *mod- "to meet, assemble." Related to Old English gemot "meeting." Meaning "to assemble" is from 1520s. Of things, "to come into contact," c.1300. Related: Met; meeting. To meet (someone) halfway in the figurative sense is from 1620s.

Word Origin and History for meet (1 of 3)

meet

adj.

"proper, fitting," Old English gemæte, Anglian *gemete, "suitable, having the same dimensions," from Proto-Germanic *ga-mætijaz (cf. Old Norse mætr, Old High German gimagi, German gemäß "suitable"), from collective prefix *ga- + PIE *med- "to measure" (see medical (adj.)). The basic formation is thus the same as that of commensurate.

Word Origin and History for meet (2 of 3)

meet

1831 in the sporting sense, originally of gatherings for hunting, from meet (v.).

Idioms and Phrases with meet

meet

In addition to the idioms beginning with meet

meeting of the minds
meet one's match
meet one's Waterloo
meet the requirements
meet up with
meet with

also see:

go (meet) halfway
make ends meet
more than meets the eye

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