mete

Meaning of mete

verb
  1. dispense or allot justice, a punishment, or harsh treatment.
    punishments meted out to soldiers who violated army regulations

Old English metan ‘measure’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meten and German messen ‘to measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin meditari ‘meditate’, Greek medesthai ‘care for’, also by meet2.

noun

a boundary or boundary stone.

late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin meta ‘boundary, goal’.

Information about mete

  • The plural form of mete is: metes.
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Hyphenation of mete

mete

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • mete is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

mete synonyms

Meaning boundary line:

border, borderline, delimitation

Meaning distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people:

dispense

Meaning divide up and share out:

apportion

Meaning give a share or a unit of (something) to each of a number of recipients:

distribute

Meaning supply or distribute (something) for use or sale:

issue

Meaning distribute (resources or duties) for a particular purpose:

allocate

Meaning give or apportion (something) to someone:

allot

Meaning confer or present (an honour, right, or gift):

bestow

Meaning allocate (a job or duty):

assign

Meaning manage and be responsible for the running of (a business, organization, etc.):

administer

Translation of mete

Anagrams of mete

EMet, emet, Etem, meet, teem, teme

Words that rhyme with mete

agamete, anisogamete, aplanogamete, coenogamete, gamete, heterogamete, isogamete, macrogamete, megagamete, microgamete, oogamete, planogamete, progamete, zoogamete, BMetE, Admete, Emete, bemete, MMetE, evenmete, unmete, entermete, BSMetE, MSMetE, cosmete, plumete

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