Definitions for meet

Definitions for (noun) meet

Main entry: sports meeting, meet

Definition: a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held


Definitions for (verb) meet

Main entry: take on, encounter, meet, play

Definition: contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle

Usage: Princeton plays Yale this weekend; Charlie likes to play Mary


Main entry: satisfy, fill, fulfil, fulfill, meet

Definition: fill or meet a want or need


Main entry: touch, adjoin, contact, meet

Definition: be in direct physical contact with; make contact

Usage: The two buildings touch; Their hands touched; The wire must not contact the metal cover; The surfaces contact at this point


Main entry: meet

Definition: meet by design; be present at the arrival of

Usage: Can you meet me at the train station?


Main entry: meet, run across, run into, see, come across, encounter

Definition: come together

Usage: I'll probably see you at the meeting; How nice to see you again!


Main entry: suffer, meet

Definition: undergo or suffer

Usage: meet a violent death; suffer a terrible fate


Main entry: assemble, gather, foregather, forgather, meet

Definition: collect in one place

Usage: We assembled in the church basement; Let's gather in the dining room


Main entry: meet, get together

Definition: get together socially or for a specific purpose


Main entry: match, meet, cope with

Definition: satisfy or fulfill

Usage: meet a need; this job doesn't match my dreams


Main entry: meet

Definition: get to know; get acquainted with

Usage: I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!; we met in Singapore


Main entry: meet, conform to, fit

Definition: satisfy a condition or restriction

Usage: Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?


Main entry: converge, meet

Definition: be adjacent or come together

Usage: The lines converge at this point


Main entry: encounter, meet, receive

Definition: experience as a reaction

Usage: My proposal met with much opposition


Definitions for (adj) meet

Main entry: meet, fitting

Definition: being precisely fitting and right

Usage: it is only meet that she should be seated first


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