Definition of meet

"meet" in the noun sense

1. meet, sports meeting

a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held

"meet" in the verb sense

1. meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see

come together

"I'll probably see you at the meeting"

"How nice to see you again!"

2. meet, get together

get together socially or for a specific purpose

3. converge, meet

be adjacent or come together

"The lines converge at this point"

4. fit, conform to, meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil

fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction

"does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"

"This job doesn't match my dreams"

"meet a need"

5. meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather

collect in one place

"We assembled in the church basement"

"Let's gather in the dining room"

6. meet

get to know get acquainted with

"I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"

"we met in Singapore"

7. meet

meet by design be present at the arrival of

"Can you meet me at the train station?"

8. meet, encounter, play, take on

contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle

"Princeton plays Yale this weekend"

"Charlie likes to play Mary"

9. meet, encounter, receive

experience as a reaction

"My proposal met with much opposition"

10. suffer, meet

undergo or suffer

"meet a violent death"

"suffer a terrible fate"

11. touch, adjoin, meet, contact

be in direct physical contact with make contact

"The two buildings touch"

"Their hands touched"

"The wire must not contact the metal cover"

"The surfaces contact at this point"

"meet" in the adjective sense

1. fitting, meet

being precisely fitting and right

"it is only meet that she should be seated first"

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Quotations for meet

Extremes meet. [ Mercier ]

Merry meet, merry part. [ Proverb ]

You meet a danger half-way. [ Proverb ]

Men meet; mountains, never. [ Lewis Cass ]

When Dover and Calais meet. [ Proverb ]

I want to meet my God awake. [ Carlyle ]

Farewell till we meet again. [ French ]

How my achievements mock me!
I will go meet them. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good and quickly seldom meet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When friends meet, hearts warm. [ Proverb ]

Standing with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet! [ Longfellow ]

Do not the bright June roses blow
To meet thy kiss at morning hours. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

White winged angels meet the child
On the vestibule of life. [ Mrs. E. Oakes Smith ]

And when my lips meet thine
Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. [ H. H. Boyesen ]

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on Life's parade shall meet
The brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards, with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead. [ Theodore O'Hara ]

For I am full of spirit, and resolved
To meet all perils very constantly. [ Jul. Caes ]

Wherever we meet misery, we owe pity. [ Proverb ]

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. [ Byron, She Walks in Beauty ]

What is excellent,
As God lives, is permanent;
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain,
Heart's love will meet thee again. [ Emerson ]

All true patriots will meet in heaven. [ Charlotte Corday ]

Friends may meet, but mountains never. [ Proverb ]

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower;
A watery ray an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between. [ Scott ]

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. [ Lowell ]

I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower,
Where roses and lilies and violets meet. [ Thomas Haynes Bayly ]

It rose, that chanted mournful strain,
Like some lone spirit's over the plain;
'Twas musical, but sadly sweet,
Such as when winds and harp-strings meet,
And take a long unmeasured tone,
To mortal minstrelsy unknown. [ Byron ]

For good or evil must in our actions meet;
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. [ Donne ]

Where two fools meet the bargain goes off. [ Proverb ]

Nice eaters seldom meet with a good dinner. [ Proverb ]

A good merchant may meet with a misfortune. [ Proverb ]

What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid? [ Milton ]

When Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]

We rise by things that are 'neath our feet,
By what we have mastered of good and gain,
By the pride deposed, and passion slain,
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet. [ John Fletcher ]

We cannot enjoy a friend here.
If we are to meet it is beyond the grave.
How much of our soul a friend takes with him!
We half die in him. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Alas, by what rude fate
Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet.
Then part forever on their courses fleet. [ E. C. Stedman ]

But on he moves to meet his latter end,
Angels around befriending virtue's friend;
Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And all his prospects bright'ning to the last,
His heaven commences, ere the world be past! [ Goldsmith ]

When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. [ Proverb ]

Sweet, good night!
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. [ William Shakespeare ]

And where two raging fires meet together
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury. [ William Shakespeare ]

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet.
The basest weed outbraves its dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined!
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet.
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]

And then her look - Oh, where's the heart so wise
Could, unbewilder'd, meet those matchless eyes?
Quick, restless, strange, but exquisite withal.
Like those of angels. [ Moore ]

Trust me, that for the instructed, time will come
When they shall meet no object but may teach
Some acceptable lesson to their minds
Of human suffering or human joy.
For them shall all things speak of man. [ Wordsworth ]

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

It is in worldly accidents.
As in the world itself, where things most distant
Meet one another: Thus the east and west.
Upon the globe a mathematical point
Only divides: Thus happiness and misery.
And all extremes, are still contiguous. [ Denham ]

With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
These are not done by jostling in the street. [ Wm. Blake ]

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [ Tacitus ]

He led on; but thoughts
Seem'd gathering round which troubled him. The veins
Grew visible upon his swarthy brow,
And his proud lip was press'd as if with pain.
He trod less firmly; and his restless eye
Glanc'd forward frequently, as if some ill
He dared not meet were there. [ Willis ]

Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]

Two Sir Positives can scarce meet without a skirmish. [ Proverb ]

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition. [ Franklin ]

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I know him not though I should meet him in my porridge. [ Proverb ]

Where two faithful friends meet, God makes up the third. [ Proverb ]

A prude ought to be condemned to meet only indiscreet lovers.

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. [ Ben Jonson ]

Yield not to misfortunes, but rather go more boldly to meet them. [ Virgil ]

Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road.
The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode
Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height.
Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light. [ Lucy Larcom ]

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. [ Bible ]

Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers. [ Bailey ]

I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world. [ Ariosto ]

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and to conquer them. [ Wendell Phillips ]

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. [ Lowell ]

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind. [ Juvenal ]

No experiment is dangerous the result of which we have the courage to meet. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Truth, and a soul that is ready for truth, meet like the fuel and the flame. [ Phillips Brooks ]

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [ Cicero ]

We meet in society many attractive women whom we would fear to make our wives. [ D'Harleville ]

Once more for pity, that I may keep the flavor upon my lips till we meet again. [ Dryden ]

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. [ Rousseau ]

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we - we divine it. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

In such a time as this it is not meet that every nice offence should bear its comment. [ William Shakespeare ]

No one would ever meet death in defence of his country without the hope of immortality. [ Cicero ]

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. [ Goldsmith ]

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it. [ Beaconsfield ]

It is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm, that cannot be seduced? [ William Shakespeare ]

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. [ Aaron Hill ]

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. [ Emerson ]

The loves that meet in paradise shall cast out fear; and paradise hath room for you and me and all. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune shall permit you. [ Virgil ]

The friends of the present day are of the nature of melons; we must try fifty before we meet with a good one. [ Claude-Mermet ]

Sweet reader, do you know what a toady is? That agreeable animal which you meet every day in civilised society. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Surely the best way is to meet the enemy in the field, and not wait till he plunders us in our very bed-chamber. [ Goldsmith ]

The most fruitful and elevating influence I have ever seemed to meet has been my impression of obligation to God. [ Daniel Webster ]

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; (but) a creed is always sensitive. [ Froude ]

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social. [ William M. Thackeray ]

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought Beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy. [ George MacDonald ]

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth: and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. [ Bible ]

When we meet with a natural style, we are surprised and delighted, for we expected to find an author, and we have found a man. [ Pascal ]

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed or damps our efforts. [ Hazlitt ]

'Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet. [ Massinger ]

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Aspirations after the holy, - the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment. [ Maria McIntosh ]

One faithful friend is enough for a man's self; it is much to meet with such a one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others. [ De Bruyere ]

Seamen have a custom when they meet a whale to fling out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. [ Swift ]

There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less than an angel will suit them: hence it comes that they often meet with devils. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

If a traveler does not meet with one who is his better or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool. [ Max Muller ]

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. [ Colton ]

Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the smallpox - because they meet with no one to give it to them. [ Lord Greville ]

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again; wisely improve the present, it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Our souls sit close and silently within. And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. [ Dryden ]

Women always want one to be good. And if we are good when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad and to leave us quite unattractively good. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world. [ Goethe ]

The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the death of eminent persons and of their behavior in that dreadful season. [ Addison ]

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. [ Colton ]

When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others. [ Colton ]

As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies. [ Beecher ]

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand one cannon ball than a volley of bullets. [ Colton ]

There is nothing so sure of succeeding as not to be over brilliant, as to be entirely wrapped up in one's self, and endowed with a perseverance which, in spite of all the rebuffs it may meet with, never relaxes in the pursuit of its object. [ Baron de Grimm ]

All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye. [ Ruskin ]

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. [ Goldsmith ]

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world is their finding so little there. Generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason the countrymen escape the smallpox, - because they meet no one to give it to them. [ Greville ]

We meet with few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between, these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth. [ La Bruyere ]

The world is divided into two armies. Men make offensive war, women defensive. Love exalts and excites the two parties. They meet hand to hand. Love throws himself into their midst, agitating his torch. But the struggle differs from other battles: instead of destroying, it multiplies the combatants. [ S. Marechal ]

Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects. [ Johnson ]

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. [ Hawthorne ]

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]

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Words within the letters of meet

2 letter words in meet (2 words)

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4 letter words in meet (Anagrams) (2 words)

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Words containing the sequence meet

Words with meet in them (6 words)

Words that end with meet (3 words)

Word Growth involving meet

Shorter words in meet

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Longer words containing meet

meeter meeters

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