military greeting

1. 1.

   a formal military gesture of respect

   Synonymssalute

   Broadergreeting

   military

Questions about military greeting

What does military greeting mean?

military greeting means "a formal military gesture of respect".

What is another word for military greeting?

Close synonyms include salute. 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 military greeting a common word?

military greeting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.