encounter
To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
Other meanings
To confront (someone or something) face to face.
To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
“Three armies encountered at Waterloo.”
Synonyms
- find
- happen
- chance
- bump
Related words
- unencountered
- encounterable
- encounterer
- misencounter
- nonencounter
- re-encounter
- reencounter
Word history
From Latin "in".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “encounter” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.