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noun

Greeting n. Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. "Write to him... gentle adieus and greetings."

Synonyms: Salutation; salute; compliment.

verb

Greet v. t. (past & past part. greeted; pres. part. greeting)

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. "My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you."

To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad. "In vain the spring my senses greets."

To accost; to address.

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Etymology of 'Greeting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Greeting" Quotes from Famous Books

... absently an approaching horsewoman, and recognised—too late for escape—Mrs Hunter-Ranyard. By timely flight on Thursday, he had evaded her congratulations. Intuition told him she would say things that jarred. Now he flicked Suraj with the base intent of merely greeting her ...

— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver

... line from shore. Aboard it, every man of the great fleet knew, besides the admiral, were King George and Queen Mary of England; and it was the royal salute that was being fired. Even the American ships joined in the greeting. ...

— The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets - The Fall of the German Navy • Robert L. Drake

... urged him on to the head of the lane where two farm-gates stood at right angles. One of them was open, and a number of horses were tethered in a row along the fence within. They whinneyed a cheerful greeting to John as Dorothy slipped his halter and shut him into the field adjoining. Now should she walk into temptation with her eyes and ears open? The gate stood wide, with only one field of perfumed meadow-grass between her ...

— Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) • Constance Fenimore Woolson

... you?" he asked Cherry. Cherry was sitting beside him, at the dinner table, on the first night of his arrival. She was thrilling still to the memory of his greeting kiss, its fresh odour of shaving soap and witch hazel, and the clean touch of his smooth-shaven cheek. She gave her father a demure and interrogative glance. Martin, following it, ...

— Sisters • Kathleen Norris

... much I pondered thereon: hard was it to know again— The black stones in order laid in the place where the pot was set, and the trench like a cistern's root with its sides unbroken still. And when I knew it, at last, for his resting-place, I cried, "Good greeting to thee, O house! Fair peace in the morn to thee!" Look forth, O friend! canst thou see aught of ladies, camel-borne, that journey along the upland there, above Jurthum well? Their litters are hung with precious stuffs, and their veils thereon ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 2 • Charles Dudley Warner

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