Synonyms for greet
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1. greetverb

   To accost is to speak first, to friend or stranger, generally with a view to opening conversation; greet is not so distinctly limited, since one may return another's greeting; greet and hail may imply but a passing word; greeting may be altogether silent; to hail is to greet in a loud-voiced and commonly hearty and joyous way, as appears in the expression "hail fellow, well met." To salute is to greet with special token of respect, as a soldier his commander. To apostrophize is to solemnly address some person or personified attribute apart from the audience to whom one is speaking; as, a preacher may apostrophize virtue, the saints of old, or even the Deity. To appeal is strictly to call for some form of help or support. Address is slightly more formal than accost or greet, though it may often be interchanged with them. One may address another at considerable length or in writing; he accosts orally and briefly.

   Synonyms:
   address, address, apostrophize, appeal, approach, cost, court, hail, salute, speak to, woo

   Antonyms:
   avoid, cut, elude, ignore, overlook, pass, pass by, shun

   Preposition:
   Address the memorial to the legislature; the president addressed the people in an eloquent speech; he addressed an intruder with indignation.

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1. greet, recognize, recogniseverb

   express greetings upon meeting someone

   Synonyms:
   know, recognise, realize, tell apart, agnize, spot, realise, acknowledge, distinguish, accredit, pick out, recognize, discern, make out, agnise

2. greetverb

   send greetings to

   Synonyms:
   recognise, recognize

3. greetverb

   react to in a certain way

   "The President was greeted with catcalls"

   Synonyms:
   recognise, recognize

4. greetverb

   be perceived by

   "Loud music greeted him when he entered the apartment"

   Synonyms:
   recognise, recognize

Matched Categories

1. • Communicate
   • React

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1. greetverb

   Synonyms:
   salute, welcome, hail, address, accost

2. greetverb

   Synonyms:
   compliment, send greeting to

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1. greetverb

   Synonyms:
   address, salute, hail, accost

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1. List of paraphrases for "greet":

   welcome, salute, commend

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How to use greet in a sentence?

1. Edward Hoagland:

   Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

2. Colleen Hanabusa:

   This is racial stereotyping. Does he greet others in their ancestral language ? this mentality led to a period in American history that saw 120,000 men, women and children, including my grandfathers, sent to internment camps after World War II.

3. Jamela Dunbar:

   We are not alone. In this vast Universe. The universe is too huge. Not to have other living beings, besides us. One day in the never future. We will get the surprise. We have been waiting for. And it will be mind bugling. Beyond our wildest dream. We are definitely not alone. It is too good to be true. The others we seek were here before us. And they will greet us again. In good time. You can believe it or not. It will happen.”

4. William H Gass:

   We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

5. Hazel Henderson:

   If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.