greet

greet

greet (third-person singular simple present greets, present participle greeting, simple past and past participle greeted)

1. To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.

   My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you. -Shak.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

2. To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.

   In vain the spring my senses greets. -Addison.

3. To accost; to address.
4. (intransitive) To meet and give salutations.

   There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace. -Shak.

greet (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

greet (comparative more greet, superlative most greet)

1. (obsolete, except Scotland) Great.

salutare

accogliere

dare il benvenuto a

piangere

Altri significati:

(Scottish and Northern England, archaic) To weep; cry, lament.

(obsolete, except Scottish) Great.

to come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad

To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.

To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes.

intransitive: to meet and give salutations

(intransitive) To meet and give salutations.

to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes

To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.

(obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

To accost; to address.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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