greet
/ɡɹiːt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.73 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing.
Transitive verb
adj
Example Sentences
- "My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you."
- "Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted."
- "In vain the Spring my Senſes greets / In all her Colours, all her Svveets; / To me the Roſe / No longer glovvs, / Every Plant / Has loſt its Scent: […]"
- "Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove."
- "Fair on his feet the polish'd sandals shine, And thus he greets the master of the swine:"
- "I can be active as long as I stay in the closet. If I go forth as who I am, I will be greeted with closed doors."
Etymology
From Middle English greten, from Old English grētan, from Proto-West Germanic *grōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōtijaną. Cognate with Dutch groeten, German grüßen, grüssen.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: greten, grētan, *grōtijan, *grōtijaną, greet, -
Usage
Inflected Forms
greets (present, singular)
greeting (participle, present)
greeted (participle, past)
greeted (past)
more greet (comparative)
most greet (superlative)
grat (participle, past)
grat (past)
grutten (participle, past)
grutten (past)
Greets (plural)
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
hail
beweep
burst into tears
cry
cry one's eyes out
greet
shed a tear
shed tears
squirt some
wail
weep