greeting
A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to…A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.
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CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.
It's polite to begin a letter with a greeting, but this practice is less common in email.
Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday greetings.
Gruß, Begrüßung
приве́тствиеprivétstvije
віта́нняvitánnja, привіта́нняpryvitánnja
(uncountable)The action of the verb to greet.
- (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)
Examples
105 sentencesDo you buy greeting cards online?
What kinds of greeting cards do you send?
Our store sells greeting cards for all occasions.
Tom entered without greeting me.
We exchanged greetings.
ruМы обменялись приветствиями. — sharptoothed
deWir haben Grüße ausgetauscht. — enteka
Translations
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Origin
By surface analysis, greet + -ing.By surface analysis, greet + -ing.
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Forms
plural: greetingsSynonyms
5 synonyms- (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting):salutation
Antonyms
2 antonymsWord family
8 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.