When the visitor entered the room, we stood to greet him.
Source: tatoeba (19912)
Greet
//ɡɹiːt//
Synonyms for "greet" (73 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (36)
Related word relations
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9 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
10 entrieshas context
2 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
154 translations across 78 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀσπάζομαι verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Arabic
3 entries- بلغ السلام verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- حَيَّا verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- سلم verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Armenian
2 entries- բարևել verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- ողջունել verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Aromanian
4 entries- bunuescu verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- cãlimirsescu verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- ghinuescu verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- hiritisescu verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Asturian
1 entries- saludar verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- salamlamaq verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Belarusian
3 entries- віта́ць verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- здаро́ўкацца verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- сустрака́ць verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Bengali
2 entries- অভিবাদন করা verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- অভিবাদন জানান verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Bulgarian
4 entries- заговарям verb (to accost; to address)
- поздравявам verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- посрещам verb (to come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad)
- приветствам verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Burmese
1 entries- နှုတ်ဆက် verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Catalan
1 entries- saludar verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏲᎵᎭ verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Chinese
1 entries- 相借喙 verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 打招呼 verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 打招呼 verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- 歡迎 /欢迎 verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- 迎接 verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Chukchi
1 entries- мынгаймэтык verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Czech
2 entries- pozdravit verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- zdravit verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Danish
1 entries- hilse verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Dutch
4 entries- begroeten verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- groeten verb (intransitive: to meet and give salutations)
- ontvangen verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- tegemoet komen verb (intransitive: to meet and give salutations)
Esperanto
1 entries- saluti verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Estonian
1 entries- tervitama verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Finnish
4 entries- tervehtiä verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- tervehtiä verb (to come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad)
- tervehtiä verb (to accost; to address)
- tervehtiä verb (intransitive: to meet and give salutations)
French
2 entries- recevoir verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- saluer verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Galician
1 entries- saudar verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Georgian
1 entries- მისალმება verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
German
2 entries- begrüßen verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- grüßen verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐍉𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Greek
1 entries- χαιρετώ verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Hindi
3 entries- अभिवादन करना verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- नमस्कार करना verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- स्वागत करना verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Hungarian
4 entries- fogad verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- fogad verb (to come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad)
- köszönt verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- köszönt verb (to come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad)
Ingrian
1 entries- terettää verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Italian
4 entries- accogliere verb (to come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad)
- dare il benvenuto verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- fare gli auguri verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- fare i convenevoli verb (intransitive: to meet and give salutations)
Japanese
3 entries- 出迎える verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- 挨拶する verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- 歓迎する verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Kazakh
2 entries- амандасу verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- сәлемдесу verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Khmer
2 entries- គំនាប់ verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- វន្ទា verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Korean
1 entries- 인사하다 verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- саламдашуу verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Lao
3 entries- ຄຳນັບ verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- ທັກ verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- ທັກທາຽ verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Latin
1 entries- salūtō verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Latvian
2 entries- sveicināt verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- sveikt verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Lithuanian
1 entries- sveikinti verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Low German
1 entries- begröten verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- strowiś verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- witaś verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- gréissen verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Macedonian
2 entries- поздрави verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- поздравува verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Mongolian
1 entries- мэндлэх verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Māori
3 entries- mānawa verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- oha verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- owha verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- ulaulia verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Nǀuu
1 entries- nyebeke verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Occitan
1 entries- saludar verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سلاملامق verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Persian
1 entries- سلام دادن verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Polish
1 entries- witać verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Portuguese
2 entries- cumprimentar verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- saudar verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Quechua
1 entries- rimaykuy verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Romanian
2 entries- saluta verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- întâmpina verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Russian
4 entries- встре́тить verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- встреча́ть verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- здоро́ваться verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- приве́тствовать verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pòzdraviti verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- pòzdravljati verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- по̀здравити verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- по̀здрављати verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Slovak
1 entries- zdraviť verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Slovene
2 entries- pozdraviti verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- pozdravljati verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Spanish
2 entries- saludar verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- saludar verb (intransitive: to meet and give salutations)
Swedish
1 entries- hälsa verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Tagalog
3 entries- bati verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- magsaludo verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- saludo verb (intransitive: to meet and give salutations)
Tajik
1 entries- салом додан verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Thai
2 entries- ทัก verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- ทักทาย verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Tibetan
1 entries- འཚམས་འདྲི་ཞུས verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Turkish
1 entries- selamlamak verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Turkmen
1 entries- salamlaşmak verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Ukrainian
3 entries- віта́ти verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- здоро́ватися verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- зустріча́ти verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Urdu
2 entries- آداب کرنا verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- سلام کرنا verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Uyghur
1 entries- سالاملاشماق verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Uzbek
2 entries- salom bermoq verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- salomlashmoq verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chào verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- chào mừng verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Volapük
1 entries- glidön verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Walloon
4 entries- adegnî verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- dire bondjoû verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- fé sene bondjoû verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- priyî l' bondjoû verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Welsh
1 entries- annerch verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Yiddish
4 entries- אויפֿנעמען verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- באַגריסן verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- גריסן verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
- מקבל־פּנים זײַן verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Zazaki
1 entries- selam kerden verb (to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
There is no one to greet me.
Source: tatoeba (249661)
It is polite of this boy to greet me.
Source: tatoeba (250036)
I didn't greet you because I mistook you for somebody else.
Source: tatoeba (252896)
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