How do you use the word "meet" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "meet": Everyone wants to meet you. You're famous! We must learn to meet adversity gracefully.

Meet Meaning

/miːt/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo make contact (with someone) while in proximity.

verbTo make contact (with someone) while in proximity., To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.

Sentence Examples

Everyone wants to meet you. You're famous!

We must learn to meet adversity gracefully.

Maybe we'll meet again some time.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

see just converge

Antonyms:

unjust diverge

CEFR Practice Quiz

I plan to ____ you at the library after school tomorrow afternoon.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We should ____ at the library at four o'clock to start working on our group project together.

Word Origin & History

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 meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”). Related to moot.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Yesterday, upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away[…]" — 1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:

"With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze." — 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

"Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard." — 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass." — 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

"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 Dynadan" — 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter LV, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

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