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greet·ing

   [gree-ting]
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.
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Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English gretinge. See greet1, -ing1

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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:
before 900; Middle English greten, Old English grētan; cognate with German grüssen

Related forms
greet·er, 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:
before 900; Middle English grete, Old English grǣtan; cognate with ON grāta, Gothic gretan
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greeting (ˈɡriːtɪŋ)
 
—n
1.  the act or an instance of welcoming or saluting on meeting
2.  (often plural)
 a.  an expression of friendly salutation
 b.  (as modifier): a greetings card

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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.
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*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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