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greeting Definition

greet·ing (grēt′iŋ)

noun

  1. the act or words of a person who greets; salutation; welcome
  2. a message of regards from someone absent

greeting Synonyms

greeting

n.

  1. A salutation

    welcome, address, notice, reception, attention, accosting, speaking to, heralding, ushering in, acknowledgement, salutation, one's compliments, regards.

    Common greetings include: hello, how do you do? how are you? aloha (Hawaiian); hola, qué tal? (both Spanish); shalom (Hebrew); wie geht's? (German); comment allez-vous?, comment ça va? (both French); good morning, good day, good afternoon, good evening, good morrow; bonjour, bon soir, bonne nuit (all French); guten Morgen, guten Abend (both German); buenos días, buenas tardes, buenas noches (all Spanish); ciao, buon giorno, buona notte (all Italian); hi*, hey*, howdy*, yo*, you*, say*, I say*, what's new?*, how's it going?* what's up?* what do you know?* how's tricks?* how goes it?* what's happening?* what's going on?*

  2. A message of courtesy

    testimonial, note, card; see letter 2.

greeting Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • personalize: He welcomes guests with a personalized greeting, serves canapés, and once dinner is served moves around the tables creating hysterical impromptu situations.
  • customize: Its built-in address book let you customize greetings for all your friends, relatives or co-workers.
  • greet: Meeting & Greeting The most common greeting between people is the handshake.
  • send: You can send a little greeting here together with a postcard of your choice.
  • convey: Now, of course, you kindly conveyed the warm greetings to my Prime Minister from President Bush.
  • shout: Naked children run out to wave at us and shout greetings, jumping into the river to body surf the wake behind us.

Preposition: on

behalf: Extend my greetings on behalf of my family to Mr Beaker.

Adjective modifier

  • fraternal: Enemy's fraternal greetings The following from The Times is a translation of a letter from a Belgian soldier: Christmas in the trenches.
  • cordial: He also extended cordial greetings to the delegates of these countries.
  • cheery: And last, cheery greetings from 2006 to 2005.
  • comradely: With warmest comradely greetings, Leon Trotsky, Coyoacan, Mexico July 25, 1939.
  • belated: Saturday 20th May 2006 Appreciation could come your way ( possibly belated birthday greetings?
  • hearty: Only a claimed 10 % said they would give them a hearty greeting or stop to have a chat ( see graphs above ).

Modifies a noun

card: The greeting card has been left blank for your own special message.

Noun used with modifier

  • birthday: Add a tune to a birthday greeting, a wink to a text message or exchange the latest in musical ring tones with friends.
  • voice: To do this, create a new voice greeting using the standard Voice Greeting form.
  • season: First of all, season greetings to all ANS members.
  • custom: Enter the phone number(s ), including area code, that will receive the custom greeting, separated by commas.

Possessives

season: Season's Greetings, Ben Hello 3 December 2002 Hi.

Preposition: for

caller: Create greetings for specific callers, and/or chosen called numbers, and schedule them to play at specific times.