greet

«greet» in Mova's school dictionary: to say hello or welcome them when you meet — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (greet, greets, greeted, greeting); noun greeting (a greeting, greetings)

meaning for a pupil

1) To greet someone means to say hello or welcome them when you meet. tree →

2) You can greet with words, a smile, a wave, a handshake or a hug. tree →

3) To greet something can mean to react to it in a certain way: the news was greeted with cheers. tree →

sense in the lessons

In lessons about manners, greeting people politely is important: say «Hello» or «Good morning», look at the person and smile. Different places have different greetings, such as handshakes, waves, bows or kisses on the cheek. In stories, how a character greets someone shows if they are friendly or cold. Phrases: greet someone warmly, a friendly greeting, greeting card, season's greetings.

examples

• Remember to greet your teacher when you come into the classroom. tree →
• Our dog greets us at the door by wagging its tail. tree →
• Grandma greeted us with a big hug. tree →
• People greet each other in different ways around the world. tree →
• The team was greeted with cheers when they came home. tree →
• She greeted the visitor with a smile and a handshake. tree →
• We sent Grandpa a birthday greeting card. tree →
• It's polite to greet the shop assistant before you ask a question. tree →
• We may be sure they were well greeted. tree →

note

Regular verb: greeted. Not the same as «great» (very big or very good), which sounds a little like it. Greeting a stranger politely in a shop is fine, but you do not have to go anywhere with a stranger who greets you.

In the corpora

• Tigers greet friends with a soft puffing sound called chuffing, or prusten; they can roar too, but chuffing is for friends.
• Elephants greet and comfort each other by touching faces and twisting their trunks together.
• Elephants recognise old friends after years apart and greet them noisily with rumbles, ear flapping and trunk touches.
• Tigers greet each other with a friendly puffing sound called chuffing, and they cannot purr like a house cat.
• One could almost stand under the other, yet they greet each other as dogs, because they are one species.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «greet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.