met
/ˈmɛt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.09 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of meet
name
name
The Metropolitan Railway.
name
The Metropolitan Police Service of London (MPS).
name
The current or historical Metropolitan Opera House or its opera company.
Example Sentences
- "Then Hector, Priam’s martial son, stepp’d forth, and met the ground, With wise Ulysses, where the blows of combat must resound;"
- "All night me met eke that I was at Kirke."
- "The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over its handling of the investigation. […] The Met said it had informed its own Directorate of Professional Standards and a "mandatory referral will be made to the IOPC in relation to the initial contact from the woman's friend"."
- "Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fancy."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: meten, mætan
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈmɛt/
Usage
- Obsolete
- American usage
- Informal
- Countable
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
the Met (canonical)
Mets (plural)