greeting
A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.
Example
“It's polite to begin a letter with a greeting, but this practice is less common in email.”
Other meanings
The action of the verb to greet.
Related words
- greeting card
- greetingless
- greetingly
- greetings card
- nongreeting
- season's greetings
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “greeting” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.