meet
/mit/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make physical or perceptual contact.
verb
To make physical or perceptual contact.
Example Sentences
- "Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?"
- "Yesterday, upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away[…]"
- "Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock."
- "With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze."
- "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!"
Etymology
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”). Cognates Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian meet, mätje, möt (“to meet”), West Frisian mette, moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Elfdalian my̨öt (“to meet”), Faroese møta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk møta, møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”). Related to moot.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mit/
- British English: /miːt/