greet

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Mourning, weeping, lamentation. obsolete,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing. transitive
    — My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.
  2. To weep; to cry. Northern-England,Scotland
    — And damn't! if he didn't take down her bit things and scone her so sore she grat like a bairn [...].
  3. To arrive at or reach, or meet. transitive
    — In vain the Spring my Senſes greets / In all her Colours, all her Svveets; / To me the Roſe / No longer glovvs, / Every Plant / Has loſt its Scent: […]
  4. To accost; to address. transitive
    — Fair on his feet the polish'd sandals shine, And thus he greets the master of the swine:
  5. To meet and give salutations. archaic,intransitive
    — There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace.
  6. To be perceived by (someone). figuratively,transitive
    — A brilliant dawn greeted her eyes as she looked out of the window.
形容词 adj.
  1. Great.

词形变化

greets present,singular,third-person greeting participle,present greeted participle,past greeted past more greet comparative most greet superlative greets present,singular,third-person greeting participle,present greeted participle,past greeted past grat participle,past grat past grutten participle,past grutten past

词汇关系

衍生词
autogreet begreet begrutten greetable greetee greeter greeting meet-and-greet misgreet regreet

词源

词源 1
From Middle English greten, from Old English grētan, from Proto-West Germanic *grōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *grōtijaną.
Cognate with Dutch groeten, German grüßen, grüssen.
词源 2
From Middle English greet, grete (“great”).
词源 3
From a blend of two Old English verbs, grētan, grǣtan (itself from Proto-West Germanic *grātan); and of Old English grēotan (itself from *greutan), both meaning "to weep, lament".
Possibly reinforced in Northern England and Scotland by Old Norse gráta, whence also Danish græde, Norwegian gråte, Swedish gråta, all meaning "to cry, to weep".
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