met

• enPR: met, IPA^(key): /mɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

met

1. simple past and past participle of meet

met

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of mete (to measure)
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     Then Hector, Priam’s martial son, stepp’d forth, and met the ground,
     With wise Ulysses, where the blows of combat must resound;

     The spelling has been modernized.

From Middle English meten (“to dream”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”).

met (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, simple past met, no past participle)

1. (obsolete, impersonal) To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.
   • c. 1653, William Cartwright, The Ordinary:

     All night me met eke that I was at Kirke.

• Met is a defective, impersonal verb, and as such it only occurs in the past tense, for example:

Me met that I was walking in a wondrous wood where a thousand wild wolfins live. (I dreamt that I was walking in a wondrous forest where a thousand wild she-wolves live)

• In Old English and Middle English this verb was not defective and was used both personally and impersonally. However, in northern rural dialects, where it is still in use, this verb only occurs in the past tense and in impersonal constructions.

• met mitzvah (etymologically unrelated)

• EMT, MTE, TEM, TME

• moet (Cape Afrikaans)

From Dutch met, from Middle Dutch met, from Old Dutch mit, from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/

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met

1. with
   • 1921, “Die Stem van Suid-Afrika”, C.J. Langenhoven (lyrics), M.L. de Villiers (music), South Africa:

     Met ons land en met ons nasie.

     With our land and with our people.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /mɛd/

met

1. but

met

1. inflection of metre:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• mot, möt (Eifel)

From Old High German mit.

• IPA^(key): /met/ (most dialects)
• IPA^(key): /mɛt/ (few dialects)

met (+ dative)

1. (most dialects) with

• mem (contraction with the masculine and neuter definite article)

met

1. what

From Middle High German mit, from Old High German mit, from Proto-Germanic *midi. Cognate with German mit, Dutch met, Middle English mid, Icelandic með.

met

1. (Sette Comuni, + dative) with

   Met beeme? ― With whom?

• memme
• mettar
• metten

• “met” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛt]
• Homophone: med
• Rhymes: -ɛt

met n

1. genitive plural of meta

From Middle Dutch met, from Old Dutch mit, variant of *midi (from which mee, mede), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/, /mɛ/

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• Hyphenation: met
• Rhymes: -ɛt

met

1. with, along with (another person)
2. with, using (a tool, instrument or other means)
3. at, for, during (a holiday/festivity)

   Heb je zin om met kerst bij ons langs te komen?

   Do you fancy visiting us for Christmas?

4. (telephony) Used to answer a telephone call, followed by one's name, shortened from "u spreekt met..."

   Met Jan de Vries.

   Hello, this is Jan de Vries.

• Berbice Creole Dutch: mete
• Jersey Dutch: met, mät
• Negerhollands: met, mi, mit, mee
• Skepi Creole Dutch: met

From Middle Dutch met, from Proto-Germanic *matją, whence also German Mett (through Low German). Related with Proto-Germanic *matiz, whence English meat.

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/

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• Hyphenation: met
• Rhymes: -ɛt

met n or m (uncountable)

1. (dated, Eastern Netherlands) mince (sometimes specifically uncooked)

• metworst

• tem

• IPA^(key): /meːʰt/

met n (genitive singular mets, plural met)

1. prestige, image, reputation, regard
2. record

• heimsmet (world record)
• metár (record year), metsølubók (bestseller), mettíð (record time)

me with the regular plural suffix -t.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmet/, [ˈme̞t̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification^(key): met
• Hyphenation^(key): met

met (dialectal)

1. (personal) we

• me (standard Finnish)
• myö (dialectal)

• emt

• IPA^(key): /mɛ/

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• Homophone: mets

met

1. third-person singular present indicative of mettre

Compare Faroese met (“regard, respect”), Old High German mez (“liquid measure, meter”), Old Irish med (“balance, scale”). See also meta (“to measure”).

• IPA^(key): /mɛːt/
• Rhymes: -ɛːt

met n (genitive singular mets, nominative plural met)

1. (particularly in the plural) counterweights
2. (particularly in the plural) scale (tool for weighing objects)

   vera þungt á metunum (inanimate) ― be important

   koma sínum metum við ― exercise one's influence

3. regard, respect, image, reputation, prestige

   vera í (miklum/litlum) metum hjá e-m ― be regarded (highly/lowly/ by someone

4. record (most extreme known value of some achievement)

   setja met ― set a record

   hrinda met ― make a record

   slá met ― break a record

• heimsmet
• metár
• metsölubók
• mettími
• slá met

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “met”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “met” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

• mt — Internet slang

• IPA^(key): /ˈmet/ [ˈmet]
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɯt/ [ˈmɯt]

met or mët (Kur-itan spelling ᜋᜒᜆ᜔)

1. too; also
2. used to show mild dissaproval

• Rubino, Carl Ralph Galvez (2000) “met”, in Byron W. Bender, editor, Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano‎^[1] (overall work in English and Ilocano), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN

From Finnish me, from Proto-Finnic *mek, from Proto-Uralic *me.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmet/

met

1. we

Declension of met singular plural nominative mie met genitive minun meiđän, meän partitive minnuu, minua meitä accusative minun meiđät, meät illative minhuun meihin inessive minussa meissä elative minusta meistä allative minule, minulet, mulle, mullet meile, meilet adessive minula, mulla meilä ablative minulta, multa meiltä translative minuna meinä essive minuksi meiksi abessive minutta meittä

• Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk‎^[2], Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 276

From Hebrew מת (met).

met (Hebrew spelling מת)

1. dead

• niftar

• Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “met”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛt]

met

1. inflection of mest:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈmæt]

met

1. inflection of mest:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of mest
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of mest

• IPA^(key): /met/

met

1. Medial form of mete

From Old Dutch mit, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

• IPA^(key): /met/

met [with dative]

1. with
2. by means of, using (a tool, material etc.)
3. at the same time as, at
4. with, under circumstances of
5. concerning

• mēde

• Dutch: met
• Limburgish: mit

• “met (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “met (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• IPA^(key): /met/

met n

1. synonym of ġemet (“measure”)

Strong a-stem:

• metbielġ (“wallet”)
• metcundlīċ (“metrical”)
• metecorn (“apportion or allowance of grain”)
• metġeard (“measuring stick, measuring rod”)
• metrāp (“measuring rope, sounding line”)

met

1. alternative form of mid

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьměti

met impf

1. to have

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• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “met”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 94
• Olesch, Reinhold (1962) “Mêt”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 571

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Syllabification: met

met

1. genitive plural of meta

• IPA^(key): /mɛ́t/

mȅt m inan

1. throw (flight of a thrown object)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	mèt
gen. sing.	méta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	mèt	méta	méti
genitive (rodȋlnik)	méta	métov	métov
dative (dajȃlnik)	métu	métoma	métom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	mèt	méta	méte
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	métu	métih	métih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	métom	métoma	méti

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	mèt
gen. sing.	mêta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	mèt	mêta	mêti
genitive (rodȋlnik)	mêta	mêtov	mêtov
dative (dajȃlnik)	mêtu	mêtoma	mêtom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	mèt	mêta	mête
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	mêtu	mêtih	mêtih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	mêtom	mêtoma	mêti

• “met”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “met”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

From Ottoman Turkish مد, from Arabic مَدّ (madd).

met (definite accusative meddi, plural metler)

1. flow
2. tide

• met dalgası

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “met”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

met (nominative plural mets)

1. (unit) metre

met

1. food, meat in its old meaning.
2. alternative form of maate (“meat”)
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 31:

     Coome to thee met.

     Come to thy meat.

   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 81:

     Zed met.

     Stewed meat.

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 96:

     Raree met in plathearès, ee-zet in a rooe,

     There was choice meat in platters, set in a row,

• met-borde (“dining table”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56

• IPA^(key): /mət˧/

met

1. bug

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41