regreet
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːɡɹiːt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (verb) IPA(key): /ɹiːˈɡɹiːt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun edit
regreet (plural regreets)
- A return or exchange of salutations.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- Unyoke this seizure , and this kind regreet
Verb edit
regreet (third-person singular simple present regreets, present participle regreeting, simple past and past participle regreeted)
- To greet again; to return a greeting to.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 1, scene 3]:
- Nor never look upon each other's face;
Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile
References edit
- “regreet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.