Synonyms for meet


Grammar : Adj, noun, verb
Spell : meet
Phonetic Transcription : mit

Top 10 synonyms for meet Other synonyms for the word meet

Définition of meet

Origin :
  • Old English metan "to find, find out; fall in with, encounter; obtain," from Proto-Germanic *motjan (cf. 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.
  • adj fitting
  • noun sporting event involving several participants
  • verb happen on
  • verb connect, join
  • verb perform, carry out
  • verb come together, convene
Example sentences :
  • That reminds me; they're friends of ours, too, and I must have you meet them.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • No, Bines; they'll be here presently, and you can meet them, anyway.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • May Heaven bless you, and permit us to meet again in another world, if not in this!
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • He was far from expecting to meet him on shipboard bound to India.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • I should like to meet him face to face, and charge him with his treachery.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • She took up a little package she had brought with her and went out to meet him.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • A party of fugitives were to meet her in a wood, that she might conduct them North.
  • Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
  • I was glad to meet the party again, although we were in a bad position.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • When absent for a week, I knew to a few minutes when we should meet again.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • You did not like to look at it, and you could not meet it without unpleasantness and awe.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

Antonyms for meet

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