'Encounter' definitions:
Definition of 'encounter'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway" [syn: meeting, encounter]
noun
A casual meeting with a person or thing [syn: encounter, coming upon]
noun
verb
Come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" [syn: meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see]
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" [syn: find, happen, chance, bump, encounter]
verb
Be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties" [syn: run into, encounter]
verb
verb
Definition of 'Encounter'
From: GCIDE
- Encounter \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. [1913 Webster]
- I will encounter with Andronicus. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Perception and judgment, employed in the investigation of all truth, have in the first place to encounter with particulars. --Tatham. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Encounter'
From: GCIDE
- Encounter \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. [1913 Webster]
- To shun the encounter of the vulgar crowd. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter. [1913 Webster]
- As one for . . . fierce encounters fit. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- To join their dark encounter in mid-air. --Milton .
- Syn: Contest; conflict; fight; combat; assault; rencounter; attack; engagement; onset. See Contest. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Encounter'
From: GCIDE
- Encounter \En*coun"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encountered; p. pr. & vb. n. Encountering.] [OF. encontrer; pref. en- (L. in) + contre against, L. contra. See Counter, adv.] To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. [1913 Webster]
- Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. --Acts xvii. 18. [1913 Webster]
- I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'encounter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accost,
- action,
- advance,
- affront,
- alight upon,
- altercation,
- approach,
- appropinquate,
- approximate,
- appulse,
- argument,
- assail,
- bang,
- bang into,
- battle,
- be exposed to,
- be subjected to,
- bear down on,
- bear down upon,
- bear up,
- blunder upon,
- bout,
- brave,
- breast,
- bring before,
- bring forward,
- bring to bay,
- bring up,
- brunt,
- brush,
- bulldozing,
- bulling,
- bump,
- bump into,
- cannon,
- carambole,
- carom,
- carom into,
- challenge,
- chance upon,
- clash,
- clash with,
- close,
- close in,
- close with,
- collide,
- collision,
- collision course,
- come,
- come across,
- come among,
- come closer,
- come forward,
- come into collision,
- come near,
- come on,
- come up,
- come up against,
- come upon,
- competition,
- concours,
- concuss,
- concussion,
- conflict,
- confront,
- confront each other,
- confront with,
- confrontation,
- contend with,
- contention,
- contest,
- crack up,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- crash into,
- cross swords with,
- crump,
- crunch,
- dare,
- dash into,
- defy,
- derby,
- disagreement,
- discover serendipitously,
- dispute,
- draw near,
- draw nigh,
- duel,
- endure,
- engage,
- engagement,
- envisage,
- experience,
- face,
- face with,
- fall across,
- fall among,
- fall foul of,
- fall in with,
- fall upon,
- feel,
- fight,
- fight hand-to-hand,
- foul,
- fray,
- front,
- gain upon,
- game,
- games,
- go,
- go through,
- grapple with,
- gymkhana,
- hammering,
- happen upon,
- have,
- hit,
- hit against,
- hit upon,
- hurt,
- hurtle,
- impact,
- impinge,
- impingement,
- join,
- joining,
- joust,
- knock,
- knock against,
- know,
- labor under,
- lay before,
- light upon,
- match,
- matching,
- mauling,
- meet,
- meet head-on,
- meet squarely,
- meet up with,
- meet with,
- meeting,
- narrow squeak,
- narrow the gap,
- near,
- near thing,
- near-miss,
- Olympic games,
- Olympics,
- onslaught,
- pass through,
- pay,
- percuss,
- percussion,
- pitch upon,
- place before,
- present to,
- proximate,
- put it to,
- quarrel,
- rally,
- ramming,
- rencontre,
- run,
- run across,
- run into,
- run smack into,
- run up against,
- run upon,
- run-in,
- scrap,
- set before,
- set-to,
- shock,
- sideswipe,
- sidle up to,
- skirmish,
- slam into,
- sledgehammering,
- smack into,
- smash,
- smash into,
- smash up,
- smash-up,
- smashing,
- spend,
- stand under,
- stem,
- step up,
- strike,
- strike against,
- struggle,
- stumble on,
- stumble upon,
- suffer,
- sustain,
- take on,
- taste,
- test,
- thrusting,
- tilt,
- tournament,
- tourney,
- trial,
- tumble on,
- turn up,
- undergo,
- war,
- whomp,
- wrestle with