meet

1. 1.

   a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held

   Synonymssports meeting

   Broaderathletic contest

   Narrowergymkhanarace meetingregattaswimming meettrack meet

   Partstrack and field

1. 1.

   being precisely fitting and right

   “it is only meet that she should be seated first”

   Synonymsfitting

   Similarjust

Other forms of meet

plural

meets·

past tense or participle

met

present participle

meeting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about meet

What does meet mean?

meet means "come together". That is the primary sense; the word has 13 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in meet?

meet has 1 syllable: meet. In IPA it is /ˈmit/.

What is another word for meet?

Close synonyms include run into, encounter, run across, come across, see. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meet a common word?

meet is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with meet?

3 words rhyme with meet. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.