Encounter word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "encounter" word
[noun] a minor short-term fight
[noun] a hostile disagreement face-to-face
[noun] a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway"
[verb] contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"
[verb] come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"
[verb] come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
[verb] be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"
[verb] experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"
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\En*coun"ter\, v. i. To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo. I will encounter with Andronicus. --Shak. Perception and judgment, employed in the investigation of all truth, have in the first place to encounter with particulars. --Tatham.
\En*coun"ter\, n. [OF. encontre, fr. encontrer. See {Encounter}, v. t.] 1. A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview. To shun the encounter of the vulgar crowd. --Pope. 2. A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter. As one for . . . fierce encounters fit. --Spenser. To join their dark encounter in mid-air. --Milton . Syn: Contest; conflict; fight; combat; assault; rencounter; attack; engagement; onset. See {Contest}.
Synonyms for encounter
brush, bump, chance, clash, come across, coming upon, confrontation, find, happen, meet, meet, meet, meeting, play, ran into, receive, run across, run into, see, showdown, skirmish, take on
See also: alignment | be | combat | compete | confront | conjunction | connection | connexion | contend | contretemps | convergence | cross | disagreement | experience | face | fight | fighting | have | intersect | joining | replay | vie |
Related terms: battle, bear down on, brunt, challenge, collision course, come across, come among, conflict, defy, discover serendipitously, draw near, envisage, fall in with, happen upon, lay before, narrow the gap, near-miss, percuss, put it to, run up against, skirmish, smash up
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Let's analyse "encounter" as pure text. This string has Nine letters in Three syllables and Four vowels. 44.4% of vowels is 5.8% more then average English word. Written in backwards: RETNUOCNE. Average typing speed for these characters is 2340 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
encounter: 5 + 6 + 3 + 5 = 19, reduced: 1 . and the final result is One. |
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