greeting
nounEtymology
By surface analysis, greet + -ing.
Definitions
A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge…
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.
The action of the verb to greet.
present participle and gerund of greet
The neighborhood
- synonymaccost
- synonymaddress
- synonymgreeting
- synonymhail
- synonymsalutation
- antonymfarewell
- antonymvalediction
- neighborgreet
- neighborhello
- neighborsalutation
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at greeting. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at greeting. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at greeting
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA