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met

/mɛt/UK/ˈmɛt/

met is the simple past and past participle of meet.

met is the simple past and past participle of mete.

Meaning of meet

Verb

meet (third-person singular simple present meets, present participle meeting, simple past and past participle met)

  1. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
    • Fancy meeting you here! Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
  2. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
    • Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.
  3. To get acquainted with someone.
    • I'm pleased to meet you! I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
  4. 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.
  5. To come together in conflict.
    • Sir said Epynegrys is þᵗ the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyll
      As for that sayd Dynadan make the redy
      for here is for me
      And there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to gyders soo hard that Epynegrys smote doune sir Dynadan1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter LV, in Le Morte Darthur, book X
  6. To play a match.
    • England and Holland will meet in the final.

See all 21 meanings of meet

Meaning of mete

Verb

mete (third-person singular simple present metes, present participle meting, simple past and past participle meted)

  1. (transitive, usually) To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
    • Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
      Unequal laws unto a savage race1833, Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

See all 2 meanings of mete

Verb

met (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, simple past met, no past participle)

  1. (impersonal, no-past-participle, no-present-participle, obsolete) To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.
    • All night me met eke that I was at Kirke.c. 1653, William Cartwright, The Ordinary

Noun (1) capitalized: MET

MET (countable and uncountable, plural METs or METS)

  1. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of metabolic equivalent of task, a measure of the intensity of aerobic exercise.
    Synonyms:
    metabolic equivalent
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of methylethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic tryptamine.
  3. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of methionine, an essential nonpolar amino acid.
  4. The gene symbol for C-Met, a proto-oncogene in human biology.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of mesenchymal–epithelial transition.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of motivational enhancement therapy, used in treatment of drug abuse and mental illness to help people in denial accept treatment.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of muscle energy technique, a neuromuscular protocol used in osteopathy, physical therapy, and massage therapy.
  8. (abbreviation, initialism, space flight) Initialism of Mission Elapsed Time.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Modular Equipment Transporter, a two-wheeled handcart used on the Apollo 14 manned mission to the Moon.

Proper noun capitalized: Met

the Met

  1. (London) The London Underground Metropolitan line.
    Synonyms:
    Metropolitan
  2. (London, historical) The Metropolitan Railway.
    Synonyms:
    Metropolitan
  3. (London) The Metropolitan Police Service of London (MPS).
    • 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...2024 April 11, Victoria Cook, “Westminster murder inquiry: Woman, 27, named by police”, in bbc.com
    Synonyms:
    Metropol
  4. (US) The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
    • 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...2022 September 7, Gillian Brassil, “The Real Lives of Early 20th-Century Celebrities, as Depicted in ‘Ragtime’”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022
  5. (New-York) The current or historical Metropolitan Opera House or its opera company.

Noun (2) capitalized: Met

Met (plural Mets)

  1. (London, informal) A Metropolitan line train.
  2. A player for the New York Mets.

Synonyms of met

Forms of met

Verb
pastmet
Noun
pluralMETs
pluralMETS
pluralMets

Origin of met

From Middle English meten (“to dream”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”).

Clipping of metropolitan.

Words formed from met

Phrases with met

3 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with met

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about met

What does met mean?
Met means to dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.
What is met the simple past and past participle of?
Met is the simple past and past participle of meet.
What part of speech is met?
Met can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce met?
Met is pronounced /mɛt/.
What is the past tense of met?
The past tense of met is met.

Words near met in the dictionary

  1. mesylates
  2. mesyls
  3. Meszaros
  4. Meszaroses
  5. Mesía
  6. met
  7. met a sticky end
  8. met cute
  9. met halfway
  10. met mitzvah
  11. Met Office

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Adapted from Wiktionary: met (page history and authors); MET (page history and authors); Met (page history and authors); meet (page history and authors); mete (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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