met

[ met ]

/ mɛt /

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verb

simple past tense and past participle of meet¹.

Nearby words

mestiza, mestizo, mestome, mestranol, mesurol, met, met enkephalin, met office, met-, met., met.e.

Related formsun·met, adjective

Definition for met (2 of 5)

Met

Biochemistry.

methionine.

Definition for met (3 of 5)

meet

[ meet ]

/ mit /

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.

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 met (4 of 5)

met.

Definition for met (5 of 5)

met-

variant of meta- before a vowel: metempirical.

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Examples from the Web for met

According to a Yemeni intelligence source, Saïd met with the notorious U.S. preacher Anwar al Awlaki.
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After the screening, Jolie, who says she renewed her faith in “the divine” during filming, met briefly with the pope.
Pope Francis Has the Pleasure of Meeting Angelina Jolie for a Few Seconds|Barbie Latza Nadeau|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And then I met him before I started doing the impression of him when he was a guest on SNL for a moment.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.
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I was friends with her drummer from Sleater-Kinney, and I met Carrie, and we just hit it off.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I met the Ohio statesman one morning at breakfast, after hearing him the night before.
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It might have been before—I don't know whether she got married here, or she met him in Texas.
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How Phyl had met Silas, how he had persuaded her to get into the phaton with him, the accident and all the rest.
The Ghost Girl|H. De Vere Stacpoole
I wrote the one here in question, which met with general acceptance; and I do not remember that any one else competed.
The Germ|Various
He met that searching gaze as inscrutably as he had learned to endure the scrutiny of his opponent at the poker table.
The Heart of Canyon Pass|Thomas K. Holmes

British Dictionary definitions for met (1 of 5)

met

/ (mɛt) /

verb

the past tense and past participle of meet 1

British Dictionary definitions for met (2 of 5)

Met

/ (mɛt) /

noun the Met informal

(in Britain) the Metropolitan Police Force: the main police force serving London

(in the US) the Metropolitan Museum of Art

British Dictionary definitions for met (3 of 5)

met.

abbreviation for

meteorologicalthe met. office weather report

meteorology

British Dictionary definitions for met (4 of 5)

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 met (5 of 5)

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 met (1 of 5)

Met

1879 as colloquial shortening of Metropolitan (n.) "member of the New York Metropolitan Base-Ball Club."

THE baseball season has opened, and along with the twittering of the birds, the budding of the trees, and the clattering of the truck, comes the news that the "Mets were beaten yesterday 17 to 5." It is an infallible sign of spring when the Mets are beaten 17 to 5, and we invariably put on our thinner clothing when we read that refreshing, though perennial news in the papers. ["Life," May 12, 1887]

Used variously to abbreviate other proper names beginning with Metropolitan, e.g. "Metropolitan Museum of Art" (N.Y.), by 1919; "Metropolitan Railway" (stock), by 1890; "Metropolitan Opera Company (N.Y.), by 1922. Related: Mets.

Word Origin and History for met (1 of 5)

met

past tense and past participle of meet (v.).

Word Origin and History for met (2 of 5)

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 met (3 of 5)

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 met (4 of 5)

meet

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

Medicine definitions for met (1 of 2)

Met

abbr.

methionine

Medicine definitions for met (2 of 2)

MET

abbr.

metabolic equivalent

Idioms and Phrases with met (1 of 2)

met

See under meet.

Idioms and Phrases with met (2 of 2)

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

met

verb

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Definition for met (2 of 5)

Met

Biochemistry.

Definition for met (3 of 5)

meet

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

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

noun

Verb Phrases

Origin of meet

Definition for met (4 of 5)

met.

Definition for met (5 of 5)

met-

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British Dictionary definitions for met (1 of 5)

met

verb

British Dictionary definitions for met (2 of 5)

Met

noun the Met informal

British Dictionary definitions for met (3 of 5)

met.

abbreviation for

British Dictionary definitions for met (4 of 5)

meet

verb meets, meeting or met

noun

Word Origin for meet

British Dictionary definitions for met (5 of 5)

meet

adjective

Word Origin for meet

Word Origin and History for met (1 of 5)

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Word Origin and History for met (1 of 5)

met

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meet

Word Origin and History for met (3 of 5)

meet

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Medicine definitions for met (1 of 2)

Met

abbr.

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MET

abbr.

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met

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