greeting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡɹiːtɪŋ/, X-SAMPA: /"gri:tIN/
• Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ

Noun

greeting (countable and uncountable; plural greetings)

1. 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.

2. (uncountable) The action of the verb to greet.

Translations

acknowledgement of a persons presence or arrival

• Albanian: të fala! (sq)
• Arabic: تحية (ar) (taHíyya) f
• Armenian: բարև (hy) (barev)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迎接 (cmn) (yíngjiē)

• Czech: pozdrav (cs) m
• Danish: hilsen (da) c
• Dutch: begroeting (nl) f, groet (nl) m
• Esperanto: saluto (eo)
• Faroese: heilsa (fo) f, heilsan (fo) f, kvøða (fo) f
• Finnish: tervehdys (fi)
• French: salutation (fr) f, salut (fr) m
• German: Gruß (de) m, Begrüßung (de) f
• Hungarian: üdvözlet (hu), köszöntés (hu)
• Icelandic: kveðja (is) f
• Ido: saluto (io)
• Italian: saluto (it) m

• Japanese: 挨拶 (ja) (あいさつ, aisatsu)
• Korean: 인사 (ko) (insa)
• Luxembourgish: Begréissung (lb) f
• Maori: waioha (mi)
• Norwegian: hilsen (no)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: helsing (nn)
• Polish: pozdrowienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: saudação (pt) f
• Russian: приветствие (ru) (privétstvije) n
• Scottish Gaelic: fàilte (gd) f
• Slovak: pozdrav (sk) m
• Slovene: pozdrav (sl)
• Spanish: saludo (es) m
• Swahili: salamu (sw)
• Swedish: hälsningar (sv) c pl
• Volapük: glid (vo)
• Welsh: cyfarchiad (cy) m

Related terms

• greet

See also

• hello
• salutation

Verb

greeting

1. Present participle of greet.