Read full poem →No more shall nation against nation rise,
Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes,
Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er,
Dictionary Entry
To have a meeting with (someone).
In a Sentence
“She will meet with the new manager tomorrow to discuss the project.”
Origin
From Old English “mētan”, meaning “to encounter”.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “meet with”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And he cursed the folly of monks and maids.
"If I could but meet with a man," sighed the fool,
"For a woman fears, and a friar upbraids."
Read full poem →Whate’er things ye might wish,
Him neither here nor there ye e’er shall meet with more.
Ye poor deluded youths, go home,
Read full poem →9th day of April, 170a, the theatre was opened with
an Italian opera, which did not meet with the suc-
cess expected from it. The failure of their first hope
Read full poem →Most happy, and to heaven will go,
Where I may meet with her, (yet this
I count but accidental bliss,)
Read full poem →He feels consoled, relieved, and eased
To meet with her who can be pleased
To proffer kindness, amid compute
Read full poem →commend them to all interested, the author confidently
sends them forth, hoping they will meet with a favorable
reception. i ask
Read full poem →Full seven miles broad and seven miles wide,
But never, ah never can meet with the man
A tilt with him dare ride.
Read full poem →Abel came next, but petitioned in vain,
Because he might meet with his brother Cain!
Noah, too, was refused, lest his weakness for wine
Read full poem →wife, to St Paul's for a man, and to Smithfield for a horse, may
meet with a whore, a knave, and a jade. Falstaff, on being informed
that Bardolph is gone to Smithfield to buy him a horse, observes,