Meat, meet and mete are three words that are pronounced in the same way but are spelled differently and have different meanings, which makes them homophones. We will examine the different definitions of meat, meet and mete, where these words came from and some examples of their use in sentences.
mete
Meat is the flesh of an animal, usually referring to the flesh of an animal that is eaten by human beings. Meat is sometimes used to mean the edible part of a nut. Meat is also used figuratively to mean the central, most important part of something. The word meat is derived from the Old English word mete, which means food item.
Mete means to measure out, especially to measure out punishment or justice. Related words are metes, meted, meting. The word mete is also derived from the Old English word metan from the sense of to allot.
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