What does meet mean?
Word: Meet
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Meet means to come together with someone, by plan or by chance, or to see someone for the first time.
Sounds like: meat (Food that comes from animals.)
How do you spell meet?
Syllables: meet
Tricky part: Meet sounds exactly like meat, the food, so choose the spelling by the meaning: meet is for people coming together.
Watch out for: meat (for meet), miet
Memory tip: You eat meat, and the food word has eat hiding inside it. Meet, for people, is the one without eat.
Idioms and Phrases
- meet halfway: To agree by each giving up part of what you want. Example: "Ben wanted cricket and Maria wanted football, so they met halfway and played both."
Meet in a sentence
Example 1: I will meet Grandma at the station.
Example 2: Our class will meet in the hall after lunch.
Example 3: We meet our cousins every summer.
Fun Fact
Long ago, meat meant any kind of food, not only food from animals. Meet and meat come from two different Old English words.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) meete
b) sister
c) market
d) friend
Show answer
a) meete. Meet stops at the t; no e comes after it.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
meet
a) part
b) gather
c) greet
d) join
Show answer
a) part. People meet when they come together and part when they go their own ways.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
meeit
a) i
b) t
c) e
d) m
Show answer
a) i. There is no i in meet at all.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Our class will meet the new teacher on Saterday.
a) class
b) meet
c) teacher
d) Saterday
Show answer
d) Saterday. Saturday has a u after the t: S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which sentence uses meet correctly?
a) I ate meet with rice for lunch.
b) Maria and I meet at the park every evening.
c) She cooked the meet in a big pan.
d) The meet in the curry was quite spicy.
Show answer
b) Maria and I meet at the park every evening.
2. We meet our cousins every summer. How often is that?
a) once a year
b) once a week
c) twice a day
d) every morning
Show answer
a) once a year
