greeter

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greet1

▶verb

• 1 give a word or sign of welcome when meeting (someone).

• 2 receive or acknowledge in a specified way: the idea was warmly greeted.

• 3 (of a sight or sound) become apparent to (a person arriving somewhere).

– derivatives
greeter noun.

– origin OE grētan ‘approach, attack, or salute’, of W. Gmc origin.

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greet2

▶verb Scottish weep; cry.

– origin OE, partly from grētan ‘cry out, rage’, partly from grēotan ‘lament’, both of Gmc origin.