meet

To see and speak to someone for the first time.

• I want to meet your sister.
• We met at a party last year.
• Have you met our new teacher?

Common phrases: meet someone, first meet someone

If people do this, they come together to see or talk to each other.

• Our friends meet every Friday.
• The club met in the library.
• Where do you usually meet?

How to use it: meet to do something (The members meet to discuss local problems.)

Similar words: get together, gather

Common phrases: meet together, meet regularly, meet for lunch

To come together with someone at an agreed time or place.

• Meet me at the gate.
• We met for lunch yesterday.
• Can you meet us at six?

How to use it: meet someone at a place (I will meet you at the entrance.); meet someone for something (We met for coffee after work.)

Similar words: get together with

Common phrases: meet someone, meet at noon, meet for coffee

To see someone unexpectedly, without planning to see them.

• I met Tom in the street.
• She met an old friend while shopping.
• You never know whom you might meet here.

Similar words: encounter, run into

Common phrases: meet someone unexpectedly, happen to meet

An event where people compete in sports such as running or swimming.

• Our team won the swim meet.
• Several schools entered the track meet.
• The next meet takes place on Saturday.

Similar words: competition

Common phrases: track meet, swim meet, athletics meet

An occasion when people get together, often after making plans.

• We arranged a meet for Sunday.
• The club holds monthly meets.
• Is the meet still happening tonight?

Similar words: meeting, get-together

Common phrases: arrange a meet, club meet