"greet" meaning in English

See greet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /gri:t/ Audio: en-us-greet.ogg [US] Forms: greet [canonical], greets [third-person, singular], greeted [past], greeted [past, participle], greeting [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you greet someone or something, you meet them and say, "hello" or welcome them somehow.
    Sense id: simple-greet-en-verb-OfwMMEmn
     
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