'Meet' definitions:
Definition of 'meet'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first" [syn: fitting, meet]
noun
A meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held [syn: meet, sports meeting]
verb
Come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" [syn: meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see]
verb
Get together socially or for a specific purpose [syn: meet, get together]
verb
Be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point" [syn: converge, meet] [ant: diverge]
verb
verb
Satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" [syn: meet, fit, conform to]
verb
verb
Collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather]
verb
Get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore"
verb
Meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?"
verb
Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary" [syn: meet, encounter, play, take on]
verb
verb
Undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate" [syn: suffer, meet]
verb
Definition of 'Meet'
From: GCIDE
- Meet \Meet\ (m[=e]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Met (m[e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Meeting.] [OE. meten, AS. m[=e]tan, fr. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, a meeting; akin to OS. m[=o]tian to meet, Icel. maeta, Goth. gam[=o]tjan. See Moot, v. t.]
- 1. To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear. [1913 Webster]
- His daughter came out to meet him. --Judg. xi. 34. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye met a horrid sight; he met his fate. [1913 Webster]
- Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand. [1913 Webster]
- To meet half way, literally, to go half the distance between in order to meet (one); hence, figuratively, to yield or concede half of the difference in order to effect a compromise or reconciliation with. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Meet'
From: GCIDE
- Meet \Meet\, n. An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Meet'
From: GCIDE
- Meet \Meet\, a. [OE. mete fitting, moderate, scanty, AS. m[=ae]te moderate; akin to gemet fit, meet, metan to mete, and G. m[aum]ssig moderate, gem[aum]ss fitting. See Mete.] Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient. [1913 Webster]
- It was meet that we should make merry. --Luke xv. 32. [1913 Webster]
- To be meet with, to be even with; to be equal to. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Meet'
From: GCIDE
- Meet \Meet\ (m[=e]t), adv. Meetly. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Meet'
From: GCIDE
- Meet \Meet\, v. t.
- 1. To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle. [1913 Webster]
- O, when meet now Such pairs in love and mutual honor joined ! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict. [1913 Webster]
- Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December. [1913 Webster]
- They . . . appointed a day to meet together. --2. Macc. xiv. 21. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite. [1913 Webster]
- To meet with. (a) To light upon; to find; to come to; -- often with the sense of unexpectedness. [1913 Webster]
- We met with many things worthy of observation. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] (b) To join; to unite in company. --Shak. (c) To suffer unexpectedly; as, to meet with a fall; to meet with a loss. (d) To encounter; to be subjected to. [1913 Webster]
- Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury From the fierce prince. --Rowe. [1913 Webster] (e) To obviate. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'meet'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abide by,
- abut,
- accepted,
- accommodate,
- accommodate with,
- accommodated,
- accord,
- accost,
- acknowledged,
- act up to,
- adapt,
- adapt to,
- adhere,
- adhere to,
- adjoin,
- adjust,
- adjust to,
- admitted,
- advantageous,
- advisable,
- affront,
- agree,
- agree in opinion,
- agree with,
- alight upon,
- answer,
- applicable,
- approach,
- appropriate,
- approved,
- apt,
- assemble,
- assemblee,
- assembly,
- assignation,
- assimilate to,
- at home,
- attend to,
- auspicious,
- avail,
- balanced,
- ball,
- bang,
- bang into,
- be equal to,
- be exposed to,
- be faithful to,
- be guided by,
- be subjected to,
- bear,
- beard,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- being done,
- bell the cat,
- bend,
- bite the bullet,
- bout,
- brave,
- brawl,
- brazen,
- brazen out,
- breast,
- bring before,
- bring forward,
- bring up,
- bump,
- bump into,
- bunch,
- bunch up,
- call together,
- cannon,
- carom,
- carom into,
- carousel,
- carry out,
- caucus,
- center,
- centralize,
- challenge,
- chance,
- chance upon,
- chime in with,
- civil,
- clash,
- clinch,
- close,
- close in,
- close up,
- close with,
- clot,
- cluster,
- cohere,
- coincide,
- collect,
- collide,
- colloquium,
- come across,
- come among,
- come into collision,
- come together,
- come up against,
- come upon,
- comme il faut,
- commission,
- committee,
- communicate,
- compete,
- compete with,
- competition,
- comply,
- comply with,
- compose,
- concenter,
- concentralize,
- concentrate,
- conclave,
- concours,
- concourse,
- concur,
- concuss,
- conflict,
- conform,
- conform to,
- conformable,
- confront,
- confront each other,
- confront with,
- congregate,
- congregation,
- congress,
- congruous,
- connect,
- contest,
- convene,
- convenient,
- conventicle,
- convention,
- conventional,
- converge,
- convocation,
- convoke,
- cope,
- copulate,
- correct,
- correspond,
- council,
- couple,
- crack up,
- crash,
- crash into,
- cross,
- crowd,
- crump,
- crunch,
- customary,
- dance,
- dare,
- dash into,
- date,
- de rigueur,
- deal with,
- decathlon,
- decent,
- decorous,
- defensible,
- defray,
- defy,
- derby,
- deserved,
- desirable,
- diet,
- discipline,
- dispose of,
- ditto,
- do,
- do it,
- do justice to,
- double-header,
- doubles,
- due,
- echo,
- eisteddfod,
- embrace,
- emulate,
- encounter,
- endure,
- engagement,
- envisage,
- equal,
- equitable,
- even,
- evenhanded,
- event,
- expedient,
- experience,
- face,
- face the music,
- face up,
- face up to,
- face with,
- fair,
- fair and square,
- fall across,
- fall among,
- fall foul of,
- fall in with,
- fall upon,
- favorable,
- feasible,
- feel,
- felicitous,
- festivity,
- fete,
- field day,
- fight,
- fill,
- fill the bill,
- find,
- fit,
- fitten,
- fitting,
- flock together,
- flow together,
- focus,
- follow,
- forgather,
- forgathering,
- formal,
- fortunate,
- forum,
- foul,
- foursome,
- front,
- fructuous,
- fulfill,
- funnel,
- fuse,
- game,
- games,
- games of chance,
- gang around,
- gang up,
- gather,
- gather around,
- gathering,
- gear to,
- genteel,
- get by,
- get together with,
- get-together,
- go,
- go along with,
- go around,
- go by,
- go through,
- go with,
- good,
- grapple,
- gratify,
- greet,
- grow together,
- gymkhana,
- hack it,
- handle,
- hang together,
- happen upon,
- happy,
- harmonize,
- have,
- heed,
- herd together,
- Highland games,
- hit,
- hit against,
- hive,
- hold,
- hold a meeting,
- hold a session,
- hold by,
- hold together,
- horde,
- housewarming,
- huddle,
- hurt,
- hurtle,
- impinge,
- intercommunicate,
- intersect,
- jockey,
- join,
- joust,
- just,
- just do,
- justifiable,
- justified,
- keep,
- keep faith with,
- knit,
- knock,
- knock against,
- know,
- labor under,
- lawful,
- lay before,
- league,
- legal,
- levee,
- level,
- light,
- light upon,
- likely,
- link,
- link up,
- liquidate,
- live up to,
- luck,
- lucky,
- make conform,
- make good,
- make the grade,
- mass,
- match,
- matching,
- measure up,
- meet and right,
- meet boldly,
- meet head-on,
- meet requirements,
- meet squarely,
- meet up with,
- meet with,
- meeting,
- merge,
- merited,
- mill,
- mold,
- muster,
- narrow the gap,
- nip,
- observe,
- Olympiad,
- Olympic games,
- Olympics,
- open,
- opportune,
- oppose,
- orthodox,
- outvie,
- panel,
- party,
- pass,
- pass muster,
- pass through,
- pay,
- pentathlon,
- percuss,
- pinch,
- pitch upon,
- place before,
- play,
- play-off,
- plenum,
- politic,
- present to,
- profitable,
- prom,
- proper,
- propitious,
- providential,
- put it to,
- qualify,
- quorum,
- race,
- rally,
- rally around,
- reach,
- received,
- reception,
- recognized,
- recommendable,
- reconcile,
- reconciled,
- rectify,
- regard,
- regatta,
- rencontre,
- rendezvous,
- respect,
- right,
- right and proper,
- rightful,
- ripe,
- rival,
- rub off corners,
- run across,
- run into,
- run smack into,
- run the gauntlet,
- run together,
- run up against,
- run upon,
- runoff,
- salute,
- satisfy,
- seance,
- seasonable,
- see,
- seemly,
- seethe,
- serve,
- serve the purpose,
- session,
- set at defiance,
- set before,
- settle,
- shape,
- shindig,
- side with,
- sideswipe,
- singles,
- sit,
- sit-in,
- sitting,
- slam into,
- smack into,
- smash,
- smash into,
- smash up,
- soiree,
- sortable,
- speak out,
- speak up,
- spend,
- sport,
- square,
- stand,
- stand under,
- stand up,
- stand up to,
- stem,
- straighten,
- stream,
- stretch,
- strike,
- strike against,
- strike in with,
- stumble,
- stumble on,
- suffer,
- suffice,
- suit,
- suitable,
- summon,
- surge,
- sustain,
- swarm,
- symposium,
- synod,
- take care of,
- take it,
- take on,
- tally with,
- taper,
- taste,
- test,
- test one another,
- the Olympics,
- threesome,
- throng,
- tie,
- tilt,
- timely,
- to be desired,
- touch,
- tournament,
- tourney,
- track meet,
- traditional,
- trial,
- tumble,
- turnout,
- tussle,
- twosome,
- undergo,
- unite,
- urbane,
- useful,
- vie,
- vie with,
- warrantable,
- warranted,
- well-timed,
- whomp,
- wise,
- work,
- worthwhile,
- wrestle,
- yield
Words containing 'Meet'
- Meeting,
- Meetly,
- Meetness,
- To be meet with,
- To meet with,
- meet up with,
- Camp meeting,
- Class meeting,
- Conference meeting,
- Joint meeting,
- Mass meeting,
- Plymouth Meeting,
- Prayer meeting,
- Primary meeting,
- Protracted meeting,
- Town meeting,
- Vestry meeting,
- Watch meeting,
- board meeting,
- committee meeting,
- group meeting,
- lunch meeting,
- luncheon meeting,
- meet head on,
- meeting house,
- meeting of minds,
- meeting place,
- race meeting,
- revival meeting,
- sense of the meeting,
- solemn meeting,
- sports meeting,
- stockholders meeting,
- summit meeting,
- swim meet,
- swimming meet,
- track meet,
- Plymouth Meeting, PA,
- Praise-meeting,
- To make both ends meet,
- To meet half way,
- To meet one's maker,
- go-to-meeting,
- make ends meet,
- sunday-go-to-meeting