greeting
/ˈɡɹiːtɪŋ/
greeting noun: a conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence. Also the present participle and gerund of greet.
Noun
greeting (countable and uncountable, plural greetings)
- A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.
- It's polite to begin a letter with a greeting, but this practice is less common in email.
- Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday greetings.
- The action of the verb to greet.
- I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
Also used as
greeting is also the present participle and gerund of greet.
greeting meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Assamese
greeting in Hindi
- acknowledgement of a persons presence or arrival
- अभिवादन abhivādan
greeting in Urdu
- سلام کرنا
greeting in Bengali
- acknowledgement of a persons presence or arrival
- সালাম salam
greeting in Assamese
- acknowledgement of a persons presence or arrival
- ওলগ ülog
More languagesFewer languages
- greeting in Nepali
- अभिवादन गर्ने
- greeting in Tagalog
- pagbati, bati, saludo, pugay
- greeting in Arabic
- تَحِيَّة taḥiyya
- greeting in Malay
- ucapan
- greeting in Persian
- پیشواز pišvâz, تبریک tabrik, سلام salâm, احوالپرسی ahvâl-porsi
- greeting in Thai
- การทักทาย gaan-ták-taai
- greeting in Vietnamese
- lời chào
- greeting in Myanmar
- ပဋိသန္ဒါရစကား pa.ti.sandara.ca.ka:
Examples of greeting in a sentence
- Johnny is such a little waver; everyone who passes by receives his preferred greeting.
- The greeting package consists of some brochures, a pen, and a notepad.
- Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
Synonyms of greeting
Antonyms
Forms of greeting
| plural | greetings |
|---|
Origin of greeting
By surface analysis, greet + -ing.
Words formed from greeting
Phrases with greeting
Words that rhyme with greeting
Questions about greeting
- What does greeting mean?
- Greeting means a conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.
- What is greeting in Hindi?
- Greeting in Hindi is अभिवादन (abhivādan). See Greeting meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is greeting?
- Greeting is a noun.
- How do you pronounce greeting?
- Greeting is pronounced /ˈɡɹiːtɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of greeting?
- The plural of greeting is greetings.
Words near greeting in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: greeting (page history and authors); greeting (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); greeting (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-greeting.wav.
Cite this entry: “greeting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/greeting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.