greeting

greeting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹiːtɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ

Noun

greeting (countable and uncountable, plural greetings)

1. 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.

2. (uncountable) The action of the verb to greet.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     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.

Related terms

• greet

Translations

acknowledgement of a persons presence or arrival

Albanian: përshëndetje (sq) f Arabic: تَحِيَّة‎ f (taḥiyya) Armenian: բարև (barew) Assamese: ওলগ (ülog) Azerbaijani: təbrik (az), salam (az) Belarusian: прывіта́нне n (pryvitánnje), віта́нне n (vitánnje) Bulgarian: поздрав (bg) m (pozdrav), приветствие (bg) n (privetstvie) Catalan: salut (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 迎接 (zh) (yíngjiē) Czech: pozdrav (cs) m Danish: hilsen (da) c Dutch: begroeting (nl) f, groet (nl) m Esperanto: saluto (eo) Faroese: heilsa f, heilsan f, kvøða f Finnish: tervehdys (fi) French: salutation (fr) f, salut (fr) m Georgian: მისალმება (misalmeba) German: Gruß (de) m, Begrüßung (de) f Greek: χαιρετισμός (el) m (chairetismós) Ancient: ἀσπασμός m (aspasmós) Hindi: अभिवादन (hi) m (abhivādan) Hungarian: üdvözlet (hu), köszöntés (hu) Icelandic: kveðja (is) f Ido: saluto (io) Italian: saluto (it) m, benvenuto (it) m Japanese: 挨拶 (ja) (あいさつ, aisatsu) Khmer: បច្ចុគ្គមន៍ (paccokkum), ស្វាគមន៍ (km) (svaakum) Korean: 인사 (ko) (insa) Latin: salūtātiō f Luxembourgish: Begréissung f

Macedonian: поздрав m (pozdrav), поздравување n (pozdravuvanje) Malay: ucapan Maori: waioha, mānawa Mongolian: мэндчилгээ (mn) (mendčilgee) Norwegian: hilsen (no) Norwegian Nynorsk: helsing (nn) Persian: پیشواز‎ (fa) (pišvâz), تبریک‎ (fa) (tabrik), سلام‎ (fa) (salâm) Polish: pozdrowienie (pl) n Portuguese: saudação (pt) f Romanian: salut (ro) n, salutare (ro) f Russian: приве́тствие (ru) n (privétstvije) Scottish Gaelic: fàilte f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̏здра̄в m Roman: pȍzdrāv (sh) m Slovak: pozdrav m Slovene: pozdrav (sl) Spanish: saludo (es) m Swahili: salamu (sw) Swedish: hälsning (sv) c Tagalog: pagbati Tajik: табрик (tabrik), салом (salom) Thai: การทักทาย (th) (gaan-ták-taai) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: tebrik (tr), selam (tr) Ukrainian: віта́ння n (vitánnja), привіта́ння n (pryvitánnja) Vietnamese: lời chào (vi) Volapük: glid (vo) Welsh: cyfarchiad (cy) m West Frisian: begroeting c

See also

• hello
• salutation

Verb

greeting

1. present participle of greet