meet
/mit/ verb A1- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. · Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement. · Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
- To get acquainted with someone. · I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.· I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn't love at first sight; in fact, we couldn't stand each other at first!
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting. · I met with them several times. The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
- To come together in conflict.
- To play a match. · England and Holland will meet in the final.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect. · The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
- To touch or hit (something) while moving. · The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
He/she/it meets · Past met · Past participle met · -ing form meeting
Verb forms
- Base form
- meet
- He/she/it
- meets
- Past
- met
- Past participle
- met
- -ing form
- meeting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Not one of us is safe while this fierce creature is alive, and we had called a meeting to decide how to take care of ourselves when you came among us.”
Here Diana met her, and the two little girls went on up the lane under the leafy arch of maples--“maples are such sociable trees,” said Anne; “they’re always rustling and whispering to you”--until they came to a rustic bridge.
A HORSE, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway.
Morrel had agreed to meet him.
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