GREET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greet mean? 

• GREET (verb)
  The verb GREET has 4 senses:

1. express greetings upon meeting someone

2. send greetings to

3. react to in a certain way

4. be perceived by

  Familiarity information: GREET used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they greet    ... he / she / it greets   
Past simple: greeted   
Past participle: greeted   
-ing form: greeting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express greetings upon meeting someone

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

greet; recognise; recognize

Hypernyms (to "greet" is one way to...):

accost; address; come up to (speak to someone)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "greet"):

shake hands (take someone's hands and shake them as a gesture of greeting or congratulation)

bob; curtsy (make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect)

salute (greet in a friendly way)

present; salute (recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position)

salute (honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers)

hail; herald (greet enthusiastically or joyfully)

receive; welcome (bid welcome to; greet upon arrival)

say farewell (say good-bye or bid farewell)

bid; wish (invoke upon)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

greeter (a person who greets)

greeting ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Send greetings to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "greet" is one way to...):

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "greet"):

compliment (express respect or esteem for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

greeting ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))

Sense 3

Meaning:

React to in a certain way

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

The President was greeted with catcalls

Hypernyms (to "greet" is one way to...):

react; respond (show a response or a reaction to something)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be perceived by

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

Loud music greeted him when he entered the apartment

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

With a short greeting he seated himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His lady greeted him with some of her sparkling vivacity.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He rose from the sofa and greeted us without difficulty when we entered.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had telephoned, and she went herself to greet him at the door.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“It’s not fair of you,” was her greeting.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She greeted Agnes heartily, nevertheless; and we were soon in the lighted parlour downstairs, at dinner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We promise you a hearty welcome, and a loving greeting, and a health as true as your own right hand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This will be the first time in two years that Mars has come to this part of your chart, but in 2018, you didn’t have Jupiter—the good-fortune planet—there to greet Mars.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“And for thyself, Alleyne, if there be any dear friend to whom you would fain give greeting, I can send it for thee within this packet.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a shout of jovial greeting when my uncle’s face was seen in the doorway.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)