meet – English noun declension

English noun forms of meet

Noun: meet
Singularmeet
Pluralmeets

Sample Sentences

  • track meet
  • swim meet
  • Everyone has to experience their first swim meet. They have to get through their first race, their first DQ (disqualification), and their first miss/scratch of an event. Like all swimmers, my first swim meet was nerve-wracking. [2009, Alexandria Mangas, Janet Hommel Mangas, Oxygen for the Swimmer, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 91:]
  • OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
  • You feel me? You use these phones to set up a meet, go to that meet… and talk face to face, period. [2002, George Pelecanos, “Cleaning Up”, in The Wire, season 1, episode 12 (television production):]
  • So what do you wanna do? I wanna be absolutely fucking sure. That's what I wanna do. We arrange a meet. I'll feel him out a little bit. [2004, Matthew Weiner, “Rat Pack”, in The Sopranos, season 5, episode 2 (television production):]
  • Rosen assured Cregger that he had left no paper trail in bringing the rock into the States. Pretending to be reassured, Cregger agreed to a location for a meet: Tuna’s, a small restaurant and margarita bar off West Dixie highway in North Miami Beach. [2012 February 23, Joe Kloc, “The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks”, in Wired, →ISSN:]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. Cognates
3. 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. See: Old English Nouns 'mētan', Danish Nouns 'møde', Faroese Nouns 'møta', Icelandic Nouns 'mæta', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'møte'.

Verbs referencing "meet"

Finnish Nouns miitti.