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met
1[ met ]
Met
2abbreviation for
met-
3- variant of meta- before a vowel:
metempirical.
met.
4abbreviation for
- metaphor.
- metaphysics.
- meteorology.
- metropolitan.
met.
1abbreviation for
- meteorological
the met. office weather report
- meteorology
met
2/ ɛ /
verb
- the past tense and past participle of meet 1
Met
3/ ɛ /
noun
- (in Britain) the Metropolitan Police Force: the main police force serving London
- (in the US) the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Other Word Forms
- ܲ· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of met1
Idioms and Phrases
See under meet .Example Sentences
She said in the year 2000, she met Maxwell, a British socialite.
The group had met up the previous afternoon, stayed overnight at a rented property in Tenby and headed into Haverfordwest that Saturday morning.
"It was really sad when I met her," a social worker told the court.
It marked the moment, 80 years ago, when American and Soviet soldiers met on the Elbe River in the dying days of World War Two.
As Irish hotelier Patrick McKillen tells it, he met the former emir of Qatar on a yacht in Doha to discuss a business opportunity in California, more than 8,000 miles away.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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