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Plural of greeting

regular plural

The plural of greeting is greetings.

Forms of greeting

Singulargreeting /ˈɡɹiːtɪŋ/
Pluralgreetings /ˈɡɹiːtɪŋz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Greetings in a sentence

  • Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday greetings.
  • Send my greetings to your family.
  • Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.From the entry neighborhood
  • My most liked post is a quote tweet of the president's Arbor Day greetings in which I insinuated that shrubs should also have a holiday.From the entry quote tweet
  • You needn't be angry about the insincerity of shopkeepers' how-are-you greetings. Well-adjusted people understand that the question is phatic in the context and that that's usually no problem.From the entry phatic

Meaning of greeting

  1. noun A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.
  2. noun The action of the verb to greet.

Full definition of greeting

Questions about the plural of greeting

What is the plural of greeting?
The plural of greeting is greetings.
Is greeting countable?
Greeting is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: greeting (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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