Another word for greet
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Verb
To address in a friendly and respectful way
- Received with pleasure and hospitality into one's company or home:
- Giving pleasure or satisfaction; agreeable or gratifying:
- Cordially or willingly permitted or invited:
- To greet or address with an expression of welcome, goodwill, or respect.
- To recognize (a superior) with a gesture prescribed by military regulations, as by raising the hand to the cap.
- To honor formally and ceremoniously:
- Precipitation in the form of spherical or irregular pellets of ice larger than 5 millimeters (0.2 inch) in diameter, usually associated with thunderstorms.
- Something that falls with the force and quantity of a shower of ice and hard snow:
- To precipitate in pellets of ice and hard snow.
See also:To approach for the purpose of speech
- To greet or address with an expression of welcome, goodwill, or respect.
- To recognize (a superior) with a gesture prescribed by military regulations, as by raising the hand to the cap.
- To honor formally and ceremoniously:
- Precipitation in the form of spherical or irregular pellets of ice larger than 5 millimeters (0.2 inch) in diameter, usually associated with thunderstorms.
- Something that falls with the force and quantity of a shower of ice and hard snow:
- To precipitate in pellets of ice and hard snow.
- To approach and speak to, especially aggressively or insistently, as with a demand or request.
- To approach and speak to with the intent of having sex.
To present with a specified reaction
- To make a reply; answer:
- To act in return or in answer:
- To react positively or favorably:
- To act in response to or under the influence of a stimulus or prompting:
- To act in opposition to a former condition or act:
- To act reciprocally or in return.
- To come into the presence of by chance or arrangement:
- To come into the company of:
- To be introduced to; make the acquaintance of:
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Another word for greet
Verb
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- To be present at:
- To go regularly to:
- To accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result:
- A person who carries or proclaims important news; a messenger.
- One that gives a sign or indication of something to come; a harbinger:
- An official whose specialty is heraldry.
- To come near or nearer, as in space or time:
- To make an approach, as in golf.
- To come or go near or nearer to:
- To admit the existence or truth of:
- To express recognition of; make notice of:
- To express gratitude or appreciation for or to:
- To close (an opening or hole) by covering, filling in, or plugging up:
- To constrict (an opening or orifice):
- To obstruct or block passage on (a road, for example).
- To take or acquire (something given or offered); get or be given:
- To be the person who gets (something sent or transmitted):
- To catch or get possession of (a pass or a kicked ball, for example).
- A gesture of respect or reverence made chiefly by women by bending the knees with one foot forward and lowering the body.
- To make a curtsy.
- The front section of a ship or boat.
- Either of the sides of this front section:
- The oar or the person wielding the oar closest to the bow in a racing shell.
- To lower and raise the head quickly, as in agreement or acknowledgment.
- To let the head fall forward when sleepy.
- To be careless or momentarily inattentive as if sleepy; lapse:
- To clasp or hold close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection.
- To surround or enclose:
- To include or contain as part of something broader.
- To know to be something that has been perceived before:
- To know or identify from past experience or knowledge:
- To perceive or show acceptance of the validity or reality of:
- Precipitation in the form of spherical or irregular pellets of ice larger than 5 millimeters (0.2 inch) in diameter, usually associated with thunderstorms.
- Something that falls with the force and quantity of a shower of ice and hard snow:
- To precipitate in pellets of ice and hard snow.
- To speak to:
- To make a formal speech to:
- To direct (a spoken or written message) to the attention of:
- To greet or address with an expression of welcome, goodwill, or respect.
- To recognize (a superior) with a gesture prescribed by military regulations, as by raising the hand to the cap.
- To honor formally and ceremoniously:
- To approach and speak to, especially aggressively or insistently, as with a demand or request.
- To approach and speak to with the intent of having sex.
- Received with pleasure and hospitality into one's company or home:
- Giving pleasure or satisfaction; agreeable or gratifying:
- Cordially or willingly permitted or invited:
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