greeting

Other forms of greeting

plural

greetings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about greeting

What does greeting mean?

greeting means "(usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)".

How many syllables are in greeting?

greeting has 2 syllables: gree-ting. The stress falls on "gree". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹitɪŋ/.

What is another word for greeting?

Close synonyms include salutation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is greeting a common word?

greeting is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.