Meaning

5 senses
  1. A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.

    track meet

    swim meet

  2. A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.

  3. A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.

  4. (informal)A meeting.

    OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.

    a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held

  5. The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.

Examples

12603 sentences
  1. You should have attended the meeting.

    Ти мусив би відвідати зустріч. — deniko

    deDu hättest zur Versammlung gehen sollen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. The meeting is ten days away.

    Зустріч буде за десять днів. — deniko

    deDas Treffen ist in zehn Tagen. — Zaghawa

  3. I met her an hour ago.

    Я зустрів її годину тому. — deniko

    ruЯ встретил её час назад. — Lenin_1917

    deIch habe sie vor einer Stunde getroffen. — xtofu80

  4. I had met him once before.

    Я зустрівся з ним одного разу раніше. — ChickenKiev

    ruЯ уже однажды встречал его. — odexed

  5. I've always wanted to meet you.

    Я завжди хотів з тобою познайомитися. — deniko

    ruЯ всегда хотел с Вами познакомиться. — marafon

    deIch wollte dich schon immer kennenlernen! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Origin

From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto

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”).

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Forms

plural: meets
Singularmeet
Pluralmeets

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held:sports meeting

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

19 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • at the meeting
  • at today's meeting
  • attend the meeting
  • first met
  • today's meeting
  • want to meet
  • attend today's meeting
  • make ends meet
  • met each other
  • supposed to meet
  • ever met
  • the meeting was

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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