meet
noun/miːt/
/miːt/
- (especially North American English) a sports competition
- a track meet
Extra ExamplesTopics Sports: other sportsc2- Brooke missed the meet due to illness.
- I swam faster at the last meet.
- This year's meet was held in Anchorage, Alaska.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- gymnastics
- race
- swim
- …
- hold
- attend
- go to
- …
- record
- at a/the meet
- (British English) an event at which horse riders and dogs meet to go hunting. Fox hunting with dogs is now illegal in the UK but people still ride out with dogs following a scent trail, without an actual fox.Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- gymnastics
- race
- swim
- …
- hold
- attend
- go to
- …
- record
- at a/the meet
see also swap meet
Word OriginOld English mētan ‘come upon’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeten, also to moot.
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