encounter

Noun

• a hostile disagreement face-to-face

• a casual meeting with a person or thing

• a casual or unexpected convergence
  • he still remembers their meeting in Paris
    
  • there was a brief encounter in the hallway
    

• a minor short-term fight

Verb

• contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
  • Princeton plays Yale this weekend
    
  • Charlie likes to play Mary
    

• experience as a reaction
  • My proposal met with much opposition
    

• be beset by
  • The project ran into numerous financial difficulties
    

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with
  • We find this idea in Plato
    
  • I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here
    
  • She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day
    

• come together
  • I'll probably see you at the meeting
    
  • How nice to see you again!
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  confrontation , showdown , face-off , coming upon , meeting , brush , clash , skirmish , meet , play , take on , receive , run into , find , happen , chance , bump , run across , come across , see