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Greeting   /grˈitɪŋ/   Listen
Greeting

noun
1.
(usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting).  Synonym: salutation.


Greet

verb
1.
Express greetings upon meeting someone.  Synonyms: recognise, recognize.
2.
Send greetings to.
3.
React to in a certain way.
4.
Be perceived by.



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"Greeting" Quotes from Famous Books



... slanted toward the western horizon when I saw the blue smoke of our camp-fire among the pines. The hounds rose up and barked as Don trotted in to the blaze, and my companions just sitting to a dinner, gave me a noisy greeting. ...
— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey
... forth between the trees to wave a greeting to his long-deferred return; there were no figures on the shore, no smoke of family fires rose heavenward; families and hearths alike were gone. The place was a desert. Little Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony of Roanoke had already passed out of history, ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne
... hard wood like cheese.... And at Joel's other side, the cook. A round man, with greasy traces of his craft upon his countenance. He carried a heavy cleaver. There is an ancient feud between galley and fo'c's'le; and the men greeting the cook's coming with a hungry cry ...
— All the Brothers Were Valiant • Ben Ames Williams
... what sound mine ears is greeting, Whence the lime-trees wave in pride?" "'Tis, sir knight, the herds that bleating, Wander o'er ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832. • Various
... slouched in and up to the crowded bar. Men made room for them on either side, as they pushed their way in, eyeing them at first with some suspicion, then, as they saw the familiar garments, calling out some hoarse jest or greeting in their own lingo, to ...
— The Riddle of the Frozen Flame • Mary E. Hanshew


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