meet
n. countablen. an organized event where people come together to compete in a sport, especially running or swimming. It is a common way to talk about sports competitions in schools or clubs.
n. a scheduled sports competition or gathering of athletes, most commonly associated with track and field or swimming. Often used in educational or amateur athletic contexts.
She won two gold medals at the swim meet yesterday.
The local high school is hosting a track meet this Saturday for all the teams in the district.
While individual training is essential, the pressure of a competitive meet often pushes athletes to achieve personal bests that they cannot replicate during practice sessions.
From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”). Cognates Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian meet, mätje, möt (“to meet”), West Frisian mette, moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Elfdalian my̨öt (“to meet”), Faroese møta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk møta, møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”). Related to moot.
From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic gamētijaz, mētiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix ga- + Proto-Indo-European med- (“to measure”).
Commonly used in North American English; in British English, 'meeting' is often preferred for horse racing or athletics.