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encounter
English
Alternative forms
- incounter (archaic)
- encountre, incountre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English encountren, from rom Anglo-Norman encountrer, Old French encontrer (“to confront”), from encontre (“against, counter to”), from Late Latin incontr? (“in front of”) itself from Latin in (“in”) + contr? (“against”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?ka?nt?/, /???ka?nt?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?ka?nt?/, /???ka?nt?/
- Hyphenation: en?coun?ter
- Rhymes: -a?nt?(?)
Verb
encounter (third-person singular simple present encounters, present participle encountering, simple past and past participle encountered)
- (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.
- (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
- (transitive, intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
- Three armies encountered at Waterloo.
Synonyms
(meet unexpectedly): cross paths
Translations
Noun
encounter (plural encounters)
- A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.
- That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.
- 1995, Maija Kalin, Coping with problems of understanding: repair sequences in coversations between native and non-native speakers:
- As they have planned the encounters, they mostly have control over the time limits.
- A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.
- (sports) A match between two opposing sides.
Synonyms
- (hostile meeting): clash, confrontation, brush, skirmish
Derived terms
- close encounter
- encounter group
Translations
Anagrams
- encountre
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sufferer
English
Etymology
suffer +? -er
Noun
sufferer (plural sufferers)
- One who suffers.
- One who is afflicted.
Derived terms
- asthma sufferer
- migraine sufferer
Translations
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