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GREET

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

React to in a certain way

Example:

The President was greeted with catcalls

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "greet" is one way to...):

react; respond (show a response or a reaction to something)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Send greetings to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "greet" is one way to...):

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "greet"):

compliment (express respect or esteem for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

greeting ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Express greetings upon meeting someone

Synonyms:

greet; recognise; recognize

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "greet" is one way to...):

accost; address; come up to (speak to someone)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "greet"):

shake hands (take someone's hands and shake them as a gesture of greeting or congratulation)

bob; curtsy (make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect)

salute (greet in a friendly way)

present; salute (recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position)

salute (honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers)

hail; herald (greet enthusiastically or joyfully)

receive; welcome (bid welcome to; greet upon arrival)

say farewell (say good-bye or bid farewell)

bid; wish (invoke upon)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

greeter (a person who greets)

greeting ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be perceived by

Example:

Loud music greeted him when he entered the apartment

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

A few of these events may become truly global storms, such as one in 1971 that greeted the first spacecraft to orbit Mars, NASA's Mariner 9.

(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)

Lindsay sees a future where malaria-sniffing dogs greet travelers at ports of entry, helping medical personnel sniff out infected travelers.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

But the older hands greeted this remark with scorn.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

His fat, red face wreathed itself in smiles and his small eyes glittered as he greeted my companion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At last he spoke, saying: Is there no greeting for Negore, who has been long gone and has but now come back?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But no village greeted his eyes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Everyone greeted him kindly, for Jo's sake at first, but very soon they liked him for his own.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At our entrance, Mrs. Fairfax, Adele, Sophie, Leah, advanced to meet and greet us.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Lestrade’s bulldog features gazed out at us from the front window, and he greeted us warmly when a big constable had opened the door and let us in.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No answering greeting came back to me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)