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Salute   /səlˈut/   Listen
Salute

noun
1.
An act of honor or courteous recognition.  Synonym: salutation.
2.
A formal military gesture of respect.  Synonym: military greeting.
3.
An act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat.
verb
(past & past part. saluted; pres. part. saluting)
1.
Propose a toast to.  Synonyms: drink, pledge, toast, wassail.  "Let's drink to the New Year"
2.
Greet in a friendly way.
3.
Express commendation of.
4.
Become noticeable.
5.
Honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers.
6.
Recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position.  Synonym: present.



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"Salute" Quotes from Famous Books



... words wherein I see Matrimony come loaden with kisses to salute me! Now let me alone to pick the Mill, to fill the hopper, to take the tole, to mend the sails, yea, and to make the mill to go with the very ...
— Fair Em - A Pleasant Commodie Of Faire Em The Millers Daughter Of - Manchester With The Love Of William The Conquerour • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]

... 'Here's a sample of the sort of thing you're walking into. It'll be a piece of rank impertinence on your part to call me "old chap" in half an hour's time, and you mustn't do it. When you catch sight of me, it'll be your business to stand up as stiff as a ramrod and salute me; and you'll have to say "sir" when you talk to me. And you won't like that. And I shan't like it. And look here, old chap, you think ...
— VC -- A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea • David Christie Murray

... Presently the set of the inbound current aided the oars, so that soon they were at the fringe of the forest. Eddring rose and waved a hand back to the watchers who were looking after them from the guards of the steamer. The Queen roared out a deep salute, and then the little skiff passed out ...
— The Law of the Land • Emerson Hough

... returned their salute," said the master of ceremonies, when Clement XIV bowed to the ambassadors who had bowed in congratulating him upon his election. "Oh, I beg your pardon," replied Clement. "I have not been pope long enough ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... Picard field, Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Caesar's eagle shield: So glared he when at Agincourt in wrath he turned to bay, And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho! strike the flag-staff deep, sir knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute; ho! gallants draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously: ye breezes waft her wide: Our glorious SEMPER EADEM,—this banner of our pride. The freshening breeze of eve unfurled that banner's ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, No. - 580, Supplemental Number • Various


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