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greet⋅ing

  [gree-ting]
Use greeting in a Sentence
–noun
1. the act or words of a person who greets.
2. a friendly message from someone who is absent: a greeting from a friend in another country.
3. greetings, an expression of friendly or respectful regard: Send my greetings to your family.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE gretinge. See greet 1 , -ing 1

Related forms:
greet⋅ing⋅less, adjective
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greet

1  [greet]
–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.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME greten, OE grētan; c. G grüssen

Related forms:
greeter, noun

Synonyms:
1. hail, accost.

greet

2  [greet] Scot. and North England Archaic.
–verb (used without object)
1. to grieve; lament; cry.
–verb (used with object)
2. to lament; bewail.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME grete, OE grǣtan; c. ON grāta, Goth gretan
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greet   (grēt)   
tr.v.   greet·ed, greet·ing, greets

  1. To salute or welcome in a friendly and respectful way with speech or writing, as upon meeting or in opening a letter.

  2. To receive with a specified reaction: greet a joke with laughter.

  3. To be perceived by: A din greeted our ears.


[Middle English greten, from Old English grētan.]
greet'er n.
greet·ing   (grē'tĭng)   
n.  A word or gesture of welcome or salutation.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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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. *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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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