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How to pronounce greet in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms recognise, recognize
Type of address, come up to, accost
Has types wish, bid, bob, salute, say farewell, shake hands, welcome, curtsy, hail, herald, present, receive
Derivation greeter, greeting
Type Words
Type of respond, react


The President was greeted with catcalls.
Type Words
Type of communicate, intercommunicate
Has types compliment
Derivation greeting

Examples of greet

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Suu Kyi, also escorted by security officials, was quickly able to greet her son.
From the edition.cnn.com
The Danes, especially, were happy to greet visitors who attended the open house.
From the charlotteobserver.com
There's no one to greet me with a wildly wagging stub of a tail when I get home.
From the kentucky.com
Why is the doctor coming out to greet patients considered such an amazing thing?
From the independent.co.uk
Probably both will go the IMF and greet the Troika in their respective capitals.
From the voxeu.org
Anushka, alone of the family, should live to greet the dawn of the 22nd Century.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Airport restaurants aren't always open to greet the earliest and latest flights.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The seven opposition candidates use a different hand signal to greet each other.
From the edition.cnn.com
Kids ticket for $32.75 includes kids combo meal and meet-and-greet with Slamson.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • Express greetings upon meeting someone
  • React to in a certain way; "The President was greeted with catcalls"
  • Be perceived by; "Loud music greeted him when he entered the apartment"
  • (greeting) (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)
  • (Greeting (album)) Greeting is the first album by Japanese pop singer Nami Tamaki. The album was released in Japan by Sony Music Japan, then re-released in America by Tofu Records.
  • (Greets) Greeting is an act of communication in which human beings (as well as other members of the animal kingdom) intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming ...
  • (The Greeting) The Greeting is a 1978 live album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, his thirteenth release on the Milestone label. ...
  • Mourning, weeping, lamentation; 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 ...
  • (greeting) A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence