met
- 1Simple past and past participle of meet.
She met her closest friend on the first day of college.
The committee met to discuss the new budget.
Note
One spelling does the work of two forms: she met him yesterday, and she has met him before. The vowel shortens from meet to met, as in feed and fed, so no -ed ending ever appears. The same letters also spell an old past of 'measure' and an obsolete verb for dreaming, but in modern prose met belongs to meet.
- 2Simple past and past participle of mete (to measure). Obsolete; the modern form is meted.
Then Hector, Priam’s martial son, stepp’d forth, and met the ground, With wise Ulysses, where the blows of combat must resound;
[1611?], Homer, The Iliads of Homer Prince of PoetsNote
A measuring past that has dropped out of use. In George Chapman's translation of the Iliad (1611?), Hector "met the ground" with Ulysses, marking out the space where the blows of combat would fall. Modern English keeps mete for allotting punishment or reward. A reader who finds met beside ground or land in older verse should think of measuring, not encountering.
- 3To dream, or to come to someone's mind while sleeping.
All night me met eke that I was at Kirke.
c. 1653, William Cartwright, The OrdinaryNote
A separate word altogether, descended from Old English mætan, "to dream", with no tie to meet. It worked impersonally, with the dreamer as the object. William Cartwright's The Ordinary (c. 1653) has "All night me met…", roughly "it dreamed to me". It had no participles and survives only for readers of older drama.
met is a form of meet
meet, verb: To be introduced to someone and become acquainted for the first time. Full entry
- Spelling
- meet → met: irregular (no -ed)
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Origin
From Middle English "meten" ("to dream"), which came from Old English "mætan" ("to dream").