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- met (with lower case m-) at Meet (irregular verb)
- Met (with upper case M-) at Metropolitan.
- Met (with upper case M-) can also be a shortening of Meteorological (~ 'to do with the study of weather'), most often in the construction 'the Met Office' - now adopted as the official title of what used to be called the Meteorological Office, a department run under the government of the United Kingdom to provide accurate weather forecasts.
- The famous quotation "Ill-met by moonlight, proud Titania" (spoken by Oberon, the king of the fairies, to his wife in Shakespeare's Midsummer Might's Dream (Act 2, scene 1, line 62) uses the phrase "Ill-met" to mean '[this is] an unfortunate encounter". It is a pair with the facetious greeting "Hail, fellow, well met" to be heard from [usually male] speakers of a certain age.
- "Ill-met by moonlight is also the title of a book (1950, by W. Stanley Moss) and subsequent film (1957) about the kidnapping of the German General Heinrich Kreipe from his base in Crete
- The famous quotation "Ill-met by moonlight, proud Titania" (spoken by Oberon, the king of the fairies, to his wife in Shakespeare's Midsummer Might's Dream (Act 2, scene 1, line 62) uses the phrase "Ill-met" to mean '[this is] an unfortunate encounter". It is a pair with the facetious greeting "Hail, fellow, well met" to be heard from [usually male] speakers of a certain age.
