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verb (used with object)
1.
to address with some form of salutation; welcome.
2.
to meet or receive: to be greeted by cheering crowds; to greet a proposal with boos and hisses.
3.
to manifest itself to: Music greeted his ear as he entered the salon.
verb (used without object)
4.
Obsolete. to give salutations on meeting.
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Greeted
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Origin:
before 900; Middle English greten, Old English grētan; cognate with German grüssen
before 900; Middle English greten, Old English grētan; cognate with German grüssen
Related forms
greet·er, noun
Synonyms
1. hail, accost.
1. hail, accost.
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Word Origin & History
greet
O.E. gretan "to come in contact with" (in sense of "attack, accost" as well as "salute, welcome"), from W.Gmc. *grotja (cf. O.S. grotian, O.Fris. greta, Du. groeten, O.H.G. gruozen, Ger. grußen "to salute, greet"), perhaps originally "to resound" (via notion of "cause to speak"), causative of P.Gmc.
EXPAND*grætanan, root of O.E. grætan (Anglian gretan) "weep, bewail," and greet still means "cry, weep" in Scot. & northern England dialect. Grætan is probably also the source of the second element in regret. First record of greeting card is from 1898.
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