Met

• v.会う（meetの過去形および過去分詞）
• n. （スウェーデン語で）人の名前；Met.

Meteorological, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, the Metropolitan Police in Londonより略。

Met (n.)

1879 as colloquial shortening of Metropolitan (n.) "member of the New York Metropolitan Base-Ball Club."

THE baseball season has opened, and along with the twittering of the birds, the budding of the trees, and the clattering of the truck, comes the news that the "Mets were beaten yesterday 17 to 5." It is an infallible sign of spring when the Mets are beaten 17 to 5, and we invariably put on our thinner clothing when we read that refreshing, though perennial news in the papers. ["Life," May 12, 1887]

Used variously to abbreviate other proper names beginning with Metropolitan, such as "Metropolitan Museum of Art" (N.Y.), by 1919; "Metropolitan Railway" (stock), by 1890; "Metropolitan Opera Company (N.Y.), by 1922. Related: Mets.

met (v.)

past tense and past participle of meet (v.).

1. The unevenly matched armies met at Guilford on 15 March 1781.

1781年3月15日、力の差が激しい2つのチームがギルフォード狭路で出会った。

2.They had met by chance at university and finished up getting married.

彼らは大学で偶然出会い、最後に結婚した。

3.She met Mr and Mrs Ricciardi，who were very nice to her.

彼女はリチャードディ夫妻に会った。彼らは彼女にとても友好的だった。

4.She had met both sons and did not care for either.

2人の息子を彼女はすべて見て、1人も好きではありません。

5.I met him only the once，and that was enough.

私は彼に会ったことがあるので、それではうんざりしています。