ymet

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.

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