Define:Greet

English

Pronunciation

• /ɡɹiːt/
• Audio (US) 
• Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology 1

Old English

grētan

< West Template:Proto. Cognate with Dutch

groeten

, German

grüßen

. Compare Old Saxon

grotian

, Old Frisian

greta

, Dutch

groeten

, Old High German

gruozen

, German

.

Verb

Greet (third-person singular simple present Greets, present participle Greeting, simple past an past participle Greeted)

1. 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. -Shak.

2. To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.

   In vain the spring my senses greets. -Addison.

3. To accost; to address.
4. Template:Intransitive To meet and give salutations.

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

Derived terms

• greeter
• meet-and-greet

Translations

to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes

• Arabic: حيى‎ (Hayyaa)
• Catalan: saludar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迎接 (yíngjiē), 招呼 (zhāohu), 歡迎, 欢迎 (huānyíng)

• Czech: zdravit (cs)
• Esperanto: saluti
• French: saluer (fr), recevoir (fr)
• German: begrüßen (de), grüßen (de)

• Greek: χαιρετώ (el) (chairetó)
• Hungarian: köszönt (hu), üdvözöl (hu), fogad (hu)
• Japanese: 挨拶する (あいさつする, aisatsu-suru), 出迎える (demukaeru), 歓迎する (kangei-suru)
• Russian: приветствовать (ru) (privétstvovat'), здороваться (zdoróvat'sja), встречать (ru) (vstrečát'), встретить (ru) (vstrétit’)
• Spanish: saludar
• Volapük: glidön
• Yiddish:

to come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad

• Finnish: tervehtiä (fi)

• Hungarian: köszönt (hu), üdvözöl (hu), fogad (hu)

to accost; to address

• Finnish: tervehtiä (fi)

intransitive: to meet and give salutations

• Dutch: groeten (nl)

• Spanish: saludar

Etymology 2

Adjective

Greet (comparative maist Greet, superlative maist Greet)

1. (obsolete, Template:Context 2) Great.

Etymology 3

From a blend of two Old English verbs,

grētan

(cognate with Swedish

gräta

', Danish

græde

) and

grēotan

(of uncertain ultimate origin), both ‘weep, lament’.

Verb

Greet (third-person singular simple present Greets, present participle Greeting, simple past an past participle Greeted)

1. Template:Scottish To weep; cry, lament.

   Divint greet wor lass, he had a canny innins.

Noun

1. Template:Obsolete Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

References

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4[1]
• Template:R:1913

Anagrams

• egret

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• grete

Adjective

1. great (large, significant)

Descendants

• English: great

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Scots

Etymology

From a blend of two Old English verbs,

grētan

(cognate with Swedish

gråta

', Danish

græde

) and

grēotan

(of uncertain ultimate origin), both ‘weep, lament’.

Pronunciation

• /ɡrit/

Verb

Greet

1. to weep, lament

Noun

greet

1. cry, lamentation

Adjective

Greet (comparative mair Greet, superlative maist Greet)

1. great