WORDLE ENGLISH
greet
verb
greet—to say hello to someone or welcome them when you meet
/ɡɹiːt/
Origin
From Middle English greten, from Old English grētan, from Proto-West Germanic *grōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōtijaną.
verb
- transitiveTo welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing.“My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.”“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 recognitio”
- transitiveTo arrive at or reach, or meet.“In vain the Spring my Senſes greets / In all her Colours, all her Svveets; / To me the Roſe / No longer glovvs, / Every Plant / Has loſt its Scent: […]”“Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.”
- transitiveTo accost; to address.“Fair on his feet the polish'd sandals shine, And thus he greets the master of the swine:”
- archaic, intransitiveTo meet and give salutations.“There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace.”
- figuratively, transitiveTo be perceived by (someone).“A brilliant dawn greeted her eyes as she looked out of the window.”“Muggy heat—temperature in the 90s and high humidity—greeted early arrivals for the 72-hole, three-day test, rated the hardest and most important in the sport.”“The first thing that greets you on entering the church is a notice asking you not to vex the goat, since it renders valuable service in keeping the churchyard tidy.”
- Northern-England, ScotlandTo weep; to cry.“And damn't! if he didn't take down her bit things and scone her so sore she grat like a bairn [...].”“My maw went potty and started greeting.”
adj
- Great.
noun
- obsolete, uncountableMourning, weeping, lamentation.
name
- countable, uncountableA surname.
- countable, uncountableA village in Winchcombe parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0229).
- countable, uncountableA hamlet in Swale borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9255)
- countable, uncountableA suburb in the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1084).
- countable, uncountableA minor river in Nottinghamshire, England, which joins the River Trent at Fiskerton (Notts.).
Formsgreets(present, singular, third-person) · greeting(participle, present) · greeted(participle, past) · greeted(past) · more greet(comparative) · most greet(superlative) · grat(participle, past) · grat(past) · grutten(participle, past) · grutten(past) · Greets(plural)
Appeared In
Daily Puzzle #1718 · March 3, 2026
Daily Puzzle #85 · September 12, 2021
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