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met

verbverbverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • //mɛt//

To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of meetsimple past and past participle of meet

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of meteobsoletesimple 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;

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.

    All night me met eke that I was at Kirke.

Etymology

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

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).