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What (who) is Encounter - definition
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Encounters; Encountered; Encounter (disambiguation); Encounter (album); Encounter (TV series); Encounter (film)
Encounter
·vt A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter.
II. Encounter ·vt A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an Interview.
III. Encounter ·vi 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.
IV. Encounter ·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.
encounter
¦ verb unexpectedly meet or be faced with.
¦ noun
1. an unexpected or casual meeting.
2. a confrontation or unpleasant struggle.
Origin
ME: from OFr. encontrer (v.), encontre (n.), based on L. in- 'in' + contra 'against'.
encounter
(encounters, encountering, encountered)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you encounter problems or difficulties, you experience them.
Every day of our lives we encounter stresses of one kind or another...
VERB: V n
2.
If you encounter someone, you meet them, usually unexpectedly. (FORMAL)
Did you encounter anyone in the building?...
= meet
VERB: V n
3.
An encounter with someone is a meeting with them, particularly one that is unexpected or significant.
The author tells of a remarkable encounter with a group of South Vietnamese soldiers.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
4.
An encounter is a particular type of experience.
...a sexual encounter.
...his first serious encounter with alcohol.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
Examples of use of Encounter
1. "In private," says Prosser, an encounter with Smith "is rather like an encounter with her writing.
2. Not first encounter Bandar‘s meeting with Olmert was not the first encounter of the Saudi prince with the Israeli establishment.
3. "It‘s not unusual to encounter gentleness in the yeshiva world, but to encounter gentleness with a hero like you?
4. A profound encounter of faith and reason is taking place here, an encounter between genuine enlightenment and religion.
5. He will miss Saturday‘s encounter with Huddersfield.