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  1. transitive verb To come upon by chance or arrangement.
  2. transitive verb To be present at the arrival of: met the train.
  3. transitive verb To be introduced to.
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find ·  give ·  let ·  take ·  know ·  make ·  try ·  lie ·  read ·  meeting ·  call ·  kill

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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English meten, from Old English mētan.
  2. Middle English mete, from Old English gemǣte; see med- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English meeten, meten, from Anglo-Saxon mētan (past participle mētte, mēted), gemētan (= Old Saxon mōtjan = OFries. mēta = Dutch moeten, gemoeten = Middle Low German moten, Low German moten, möten = Icelandic mæta = Sw. möta = Danish möde = Gothic (Moesogothic) gamōtjan), meet, encounter, from mōt, gemōt, a meeting: see moot, n.
  2. from meet, v.
  3. from Middle English meete, mete, from Anglo-Saxon gemet, fit, suitable (cf. mǣte, moderate, = Icelandic mætr, meet), from ge-, a generalizing suffix, + metan, measure: see mete.
 

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