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      Etymology 1

      From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter, obtain”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *mōd-, *mad- (“to come, meet”). Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian mete (“to meet”), West Frisian moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German moten, möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”). Related to moot.

      Pronunciation

      Verb

      meet (third-person singular simple present meets, present participle meeting, simple past and past participle met)

      1. ​To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
        Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
        Fancy meeting you here!
      2. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
        • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, The China Governess[1]:
          With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
        Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
        Shall we meet at 8 p.m in our favorite chatroom?
      3. To be introduced to someone.
        I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
        I'm pleased to meet you!
        I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn't love at first sight; in fact, we couldn't stand each other at first!
      4. To converge and finally touch or intersect.
        The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
      5. To gather for a formal discussion.
        The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
        I met with them several times.
      6. To satisfy; to comply with.
        This proposal meets my requirements.
        The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
      7. To touch or hit something while moving.
        The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
      8. To adjoin, be physically touching
        The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room.
        The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
      9. To come together in conflict.
        • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
          And therewythall they spurred their horsys, and mette togydirs so harde that Sir Epynogrys smote downe Sir Dynadan.
        • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18: 
          The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
      10. (sports) To play a match.
        England and Holland will meet in the final.
      11. To meet face-to-face.
        He went to the café over there, where he met his boss in person.
      12. (Ireland) To French kiss someone.
      Usage notes

      In the sense "come face to face with someone by arrangement", meet is sometimes used with the preposition with in American English.

      Derived terms
      Terms derived from meet (verb)
      Translations
      encounter by accident
      see through arrangement
      be introduced to
      converge and touch
      gather for a formal discussion
      comply with
      hit something while moving
      adjoin
      come together in conflict
      (sport) play a match
      meet face-to-face
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      Noun

      meet (plural meets)

      1. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
      2. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
      3. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. (Antonym: a pass.)
      4. A meeting.
        OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
      5. (algebra) the greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧ (mnemonic: half an M)
      6. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone
      Antonyms
      • (greatest lower bound): join
      Derived terms
      Terms derived from meet (noun)
      • track meet

      Etymology 2

      From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix ge- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).

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      Adjective

      meet (comparative meeter, superlative meetest)

      1. suitable; right; proper
      Translations
      suitable, right; proper

      References

      • “meet” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001). [2]

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      Dutch

      Pronunciation

      Etymology 1

      From English

      Noun

      meet f (plural meten, diminutive meetje)

      1. The finish line in a competition

      Etymology 2

      See meten.

      Verb

      meet

      1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of meten
      2. imperative of meten

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      Latin

      Verb

      meet

      1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of meō
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