# meet

> English word · Verb · IPA /miːt/ · frequency rank #544

## Definitions
1. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
2. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
3. To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
4. To come together.
5. To come together.
6. To come together.
7. To make physical or perceptual contact.
8. To make physical or perceptual contact.
9. To make physical or perceptual contact.
10. To make physical or perceptual contact.
11. To satisfy; to comply with.
12. To balance or come out correct.
13. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
14. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **MT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mt)
- **men** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-men)
- **met** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-met)
- **mel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mel)
- **mit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mit)
- **moe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-moe)
- **meh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-meh)
- **Mei** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mei)
- **mer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mer)
- **mot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mot)
- **MEP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mep)
- **mes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mes)
- **mew** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mew)
- **mex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mex)
- **Mme** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mme)
- **mem** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mem)
- **MST** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mst)
- **MEK** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mek)
- **MRT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mrt)
- **Mie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meet-vs-mie)

## Common misspellings (4)
`emet`, `meett`, `mete`, `mmeet`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/meet