meet
pronunciation
How to pronounce meet in British English:
UK [miːt]
How to pronounce meet in American English:
US [miːt]
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- Noun:
- a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
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- Verb:
- come together
- get together socially or for a specific purpose
- be adjacent or come together
- fill or meet a want or need
- satisfy a condition or restriction
- satisfy or fulfill
- get to know; get acquainted with
- collect in one place
- meet by design; be present at the arrival of
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- experience as a reaction
- undergo or suffer
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
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- Adjective:
- being precisely fitting and right
Word Origin
- meet
- meet: [OE] English has two words meet, although one of them has almost died out. The verb comes from a prehistoric Germanic *gamōtjan, a derivative of the noun *mōtam ‘meeting’ (from which English gets moot). Its Germanic relatives include Dutch moeten, Swedish mōta, and Danish møde. The adjective, ‘suitable’, originally meant literally ‘fitting’, and goes back via Old English gemǣte to the prehistoric Germanic base *mǣt-, *met- ‘measure’ (source also of the verb mete ‘measure’ [OE], as in mete out, and related ultimately to English measure).=> moot; measure, mete
- meet (v.)
- Old English metan "to find, find out; fall in with, encounter; obtain," from Proto-Germanic *motjan (cognates: 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.
- meet (adj.)
- "proper, fitting," Old English gemæte, Anglian *gemete, "suitable, having the same dimensions," from Proto-Germanic *ga-mætijaz (cognates: 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.
- meet (n.)
- 1831 in the sporting sense, originally of gatherings for hunting, from meet (v.).
Example
- 1. Can lululemon meet demand with a legitimate supply shortage ?
- 2. Did apple meet your tech spec checklist , or did they miss something ?
- 3. Only apply for a position if you meet all of the required qualifications .
- 4. The independent directors will generally meet in executive session as part of each regularly scheduled board meeting ...
- 5. Joly had attempted to meet directly with schulze for several months but was repeatedly rebuffed .