Met Meaning
/mɛt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past and past participle of meet
verbsimple past and past participle of mete (to measure)
Sentence Examples
"Haven't we met somewhere before?" asked the student.
You met him at the university?
Leaders of industry and commerce met at the summit in Paris.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She ____ her old friend at the coffee shop as they had agreed.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They ____ for coffee yesterday afternoon and spent several hours catching up on each other's busy lives.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English meten (“to dream”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Then Hector, Priam’s martial son, stepp’d forth, and met the ground,
With wise Ulysses, where the blows of combat must resound;"
— [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
"All night me met eke that I was at Kirke."
— c. 1653, William Cartwright, The Ordinary:
"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 contact from the woman's friend"."
— 2024 April 11, Victoria Cook, “Westminster murder inquiry: Woman, 27, named by police”, in bbc.com:
"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 fancy."
— 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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She ____ her old friend at the coffee shop as they had agreed.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They ____ for coffee yesterday afternoon and spent several hours catching up on each other's busy lives.