Added 8 October 2026
meet
/miːt/ verb
In Latin: occurrō, nanciscor, coeō Wiktionary
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To make contact (with someone) while in proximity. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
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To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
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To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
noun
adjective
- Suitable; right; proper.
- Submissive; passive.
Origin
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 Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian meet, mätje, möt (“to meet”), West Frisian mette, moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Elfdalian my̨öt (“to meet”), Faroese møta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk møta, møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”). Related to moot.
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