Greet

/ɡɹiːt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing.
2. (transitive) To arrive at or reach, or meet.
3. (transitive) To accost; to address.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To meet and give salutations.
5. (transitive, figurative) To be perceived by (someone).
6. (obsolete outside Scotland) Great.
7. (Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.
8. (obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

Example Sentences

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

Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

In vain the Spring my Senſes greets / In all her Colours, all her Svveets; / To me the Roſe / No longer glovvs, / Every Plant / Has loſt its Scent: […]

Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.

Fair on his feet the polish'd sandals shine, And thus he greets the master of the swine:

I can be active as long as I stay in the closet. If I go forth as who I am, I will be greeted with closed doors.

There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace.

A brilliant dawn greeted her eyes as she looked out of the window.

Synonyms for greet

Antonyms for greet

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Word Forms

• greets
• greeting
• greeted
• more greet
• most greet
• grat
• grutten

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