Meet Definition
A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
(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.)
- tournament
- match
- athletic event
- contest
- competition
- sports meeting
- symposium
- summit
- seminar
- rendezvous
- rally
- powwow
- plenum
- meeting
- levee
- To make one another's acquaintance under unexpected and often comically adverse circumstances. Used especially of protagonists in a romantic comedy:
In the movie, the lead characters meet cute in a park during a rainstorm.
- To die.
- To make a compromise with.
- To make one another's acquaintance under unexpected and often comically adverse circumstances. Used especially of protagonists in a romantic comedy:
In the movie, the lead characters meet cute in a park during a rainstorm.
- To die.
Other Word Forms of Meet
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Adjective
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Meet
- meet cute
- meet (one's) Maker
- meet (someone) halfway
- meet cute
- meet (one's) Maker
- meet (someone) halfway
- meet with
Origin of Meet
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From Middle English meten, from Old English mÄ“tan (“to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter, obtain"), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijanÄ… (“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.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English Ä¡emÇ£te (“suitable, having the same measurements"), from the Proto-Germanic *gamÄ“tijaz (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure"), German gemäß (“suitable") etc.), itself from collective prefix ge- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English mete from Old English gemǣte med- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English meten from Old English mētan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English meten from Old English mētan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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