Greet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To salute or welcome in a friendly and respectful way with speech or writing, as upon meeting or in opening a letter.
  • v. To receive with a specified reaction: greet a joke with laughter.
  • v. To be perceived by: A din greeted our ears.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To weep; to cry.
  • n. Mourning, weeping, lamentation.
  • adj. Great.
  • v. To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.
  • v. To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.
  • v. To accost; to address.
  • v. To meet and give salutations.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Great.
  • verb-intransitive. To weep; to cry; to lament.
  • n. Mourning.
  • v. To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.
  • v. To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.
  • v. To accost; to address.
  • verb-intransitive. To meet and give salutations.
  • n. Greeting.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To address formally, as on meeting or in writing or sending a letter or message; give or send salutations to; accost; salute; hail.
  • To congratulate.
  • To salute on meeting.
  • n. A greeting.
  • To weep; cry.
  • n. Weeping; crying; a cry; complaint.
  • n. An obsolete or dialectal form of grit.
  • n. An obsolete or dialectal form of grit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. be perceived by
  • v. express greetings upon meeting someone
  • v. send greetings to
  • v. react to in a certain way
  • Verb Form
    greeted    greeting    greets   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    respond    react   
    Cross Reference
    receiver   
    Variant
    greit   
    Form
    greeter    meet-and-greet    great   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    great    weep    cry    lament    mourning    accost    address    greeting   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Crete    Deet    Delete    Fleet    Grete    Marguerite    Pete    Piet    Seat    Skeat   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    greeting    farewell    salutation    salute    nod    acknowledgment    welcome    reply    compliment    invitation