• a casual meeting with a person of thing
• a minor short-term fight
• a hostile disagreement face-to-face
• a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief Encounter in the hallway"
• contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"
• come together; "I''ll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"
• 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"
• be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"
• experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"

'Encounter' in other languages