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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#m1)

2) You can greet with words, a smile, a wave, a handshake or a hug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#m2)

3) To greet something can mean to react to it in a certain way: the news was greeted with cheers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#x1)
- Our dog greets us at the door by wagging its tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#x2)
- Grandma greeted us with a big hug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#x3)
- People greet each other in different ways around the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#x4)
- The team was greeted with cheers when they came home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#x5)
- She greeted the visitor with a smile and a handshake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#x6)
- We sent Grandpa a birthday greeting card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#x7)
- It's polite to greet the shop assistant before you ask a question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#x8)
- We may be sure they were well greeted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/12/)
- [Elephants greet and comfort each other by touching faces and twisting their trunks together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/12/)
- [Elephants recognise old friends after years apart and greet them noisily with rumbles, ear flapping and trunk touches.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/15/)
- [Tigers greet each other with a friendly puffing sound called chuffing, and they cannot purr like a house cat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/136-kung-fu-panda-real-tigers-and-cranes/9/)
- [One could almost stand under the other, yet they greet each other as dogs, because they are one species.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «greet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.