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Definition of Greet
Greet

Great.

To weep; to cry; to lament.

Mourning.

To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.

To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.

To accost; to address.

To meet and give salutations.

Greeting.

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Greet Quotations

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
P. J. O'Rourke

I always meet and greet afterwards.
David Ogden Stiers

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
Christopher Lasch

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
John Updike

Greet Translations

greet in Afrikaans is groet
greet in Danish is hilse, sige goddag
greet in Dutch is groeten, begroeten
greet in French is saluer, saluons, saluez, saluent
greet in Italian is salutare, salutare
greet in Latin is saluto
greet in Norwegian is hilse
greet in Portuguese is cumprimente
greet in Spanish is saludale, cumplimentar, saludar


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