Usually means: Welcome or acknowledge someone warmly.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word greet:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. greet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. greet, greet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. greet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. greet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. greet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Greet, greet: Wordnik
  7. greet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. greet: Wiktionary
  9. greet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. greet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. greet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Greet, greet: Dictionary.com
  13. greet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. greet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Greet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Greet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. greet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. greet: Rhymezone
  19. greet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. greet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. greet: Free Dictionary
  22. greet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. greet: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. greet: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. greet: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. greet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. greet: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. greet: The Folk File
  4. greet: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See grat as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing.
verb:  (transitive) To arrive at or reach, or meet.
verb:  (transitive) To accost; to address.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To meet and give salutations.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To be perceived by (someone).
adjective:  (obsolete outside Scotland) Great.
verb:  (Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.
noun:  (obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A village in Winchcombe parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0229).
noun:  A hamlet in Swale borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9255)
noun:  A suburb in the City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1084).
noun:  A minor river in Nottinghamshire, England, which joins the River Trent at Fiskerton (Notts.).

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