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met¹

  • /mɛt/

Rhymes with -ɛt

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of meet

met²

  • /mɛt/

Rhymes with -ɛt

verb

  1. obsolete, participle, past simple past and past participle of mete (to measure) Then Hector, Priam’s martial son, stepp’d forth, and met the ground, With wise Ulysses, where the blows of combat must resound;

met³

  • /mɛt/

Rhymes with -ɛt

Where it comes from

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

verb met

  1. impersonal, no past participle, no present participle, obsolete To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream. All night me met eke that I was at Kirke.

Met⁴

  • /ˈmɛt/ UK

Sounds like met · Rhymes with -ɛt

Where it comes from

Clipping of metropolitan.

proper noun the Met

  1. London The London Underground Metropolitan line.

    Similar: Metropolitan

  2. London, historical The Metropolitan Railway.

    Similar: Metropolitan

  3. London The Metropolitan Police Service of London (MPS). The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over its handling of the investigation. […] The Met said it had informed its own Directorate of Professional Standards and a "mandatory referral will be made to the IOPC in relation to the initial contact

    Similar: Metropol

  4. US The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fanc
  5. New York The current or historical Metropolitan Opera House or its opera company.

noun Mets

  1. London, informal A Metropolitan line train.
  2. A player for the New York Mets.

MET⁵

noun METs · METS

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of metabolic equivalent of task, a measure of the intensity of aerobic exercise.

    Similar: metabolic equivalent

  2. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of methylethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic tryptamine.
  3. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of methionine, an essential nonpolar amino acid.
  4. countable, uncountable The gene symbol for C-Met, a proto-oncogene in human biology.
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of mesenchymal–epithelial transition
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of motivational enhancement therapy, used in treatment of drug abuse and mental illness to help people in denial accept treatment.
  7. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of muscle energy technique, a neuromuscular protocol used in osteopathy, physical therapy, and massage therapy.
  8. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Mission Elapsed Time
  9. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Modular Equipment Transporter, a two-wheeled handcart used on the Apollo 14 manned mission to the Moon.

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Closest in meaning: affected, gathered, acquainted, know, respects, known, reaches, possessed, spoken, fulfilling, pleased, taken, observance, satisfaction, experienced, fulfilled

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@misc{met_2026,
  title = {met},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/met},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}