meet

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To come together with someone, by chance or by arrangement.

   Fancy meeting you here! Let's grab a coffee.

2. 2
   verb

   To be introduced to someone for the first time.

   I met my best friend on the first day of school.

3. 3
   verb

   To come into contact or join at a point.

   The two roads meet just outside the town.

4. 4
   verb

   To satisfy a need, condition, or requirement.

   Does this paper meet the requirements for the course?

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Simplified etymology

Meet is an Old English word that shares its historical root with moot. The relationship is clearest in the older sense of moot as a meeting or assembly.

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…

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