Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
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- [meet uhp]
- /mit ʌp/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [meet uhp]
- /mit ʌp/
Definitions of meet up words
- noun meet up a meeting, especially a regular meeting of people who share a particular interest and have connected with each other through a social-networking website: a meetup for new moms in the neighborhood; a meetup to plan the trip. 1
- intransitivephrasal verb meet up get together informally, socialize 1
- verb meet up to meet by prior arrangement 0
- noun meet up a prearranged face-to-face meeting 0
- verb meet up To meet somebody, by arrangement. 0
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Origin of meet up
First appearance:
before 2000 One of the 1% newest English words
2000-05; meet1 + up, popularized by Meetup, name of a website
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Meet up
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
meet up popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
meet up usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for meet up
verb meet up
- amass — If you amass something such as money or information, you gradually get a lot of it.
- gather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- summon — to call upon to do something specified.
- collect — If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
- mobilize — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
Antonyms for meet up
verb meet up
- disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- scatter — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
- divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
- distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
See also
Matching words
- Words starting with m
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- Words starting with mee
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- Words starting with meetup