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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | welcome |
| Synonyms: | accost, acknowledge, address, approach, attend, bow, call to, compliment, curtsy, embrace, exchange greetings, extend one's hand, flag, hail, herald, high-five, highball, meet, move to, nod, pay respects, receive, recognize, roll out the red carpet, salaam, salute, say hello, say hi, shake hands, shoulder, speak to, stop, tip one's hat, usher in, whistle for |
| Antonyms: | say farewell, say goodbye |
| Main Entry: | acknowledge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | verbally recognize receipt of something |
| Synonyms: | address, answer, greet, hail, notice, react, remark, reply, respond, return, salute, thank |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
| Main Entry: | address |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak to a formal gathering |
| Synonyms: | approach, bespeak, call, deliver speech, deliver talk, discourse, discuss, get on a soapbox, give speech, give talk, greet, hail, lecture, memorialize, orate, pitch, pontificate, root for, sermonize, spiel*, spout, stump, take the floor, talk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- Its every move was followed by the national media, and thousands showed up to greet its return.
- One reason why the army is hesitating is that it knows resistance would greet any move into the red-shirt camp.
- Students should try to greet the puppet in a way that will make the puppet return their greeting.
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make request, suggestion |
| Synonyms: | accost, address, advise, appeal to, apply to, beseech, confer, consult, entreat, feel, feel one out, give a play, give a tumble, greet, implore, make advance, make overture, make up to, plead, propose, sound out, speak to, supplicate, take aside, talk to, thumb, tumble |
| Main Entry: | hail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call to, yell for |
| Synonyms: | accost, address, flag, flag down, greet, hello, holler*, salute, shoulder, shout, signal, sing out, speak to, wave down, welcome, whistle down, whistle for, yawp, yoo-hoo |
| Antonyms: | whisper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | honor, salute |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, acknowledge, applaud, cheer, commend, compliment, exalt, glorify, greet, hear it for, kudize, praise, recognize, recommend, root for, welcome |
| Antonyms: | disdain, dishonor, disparage, slight |
| Main Entry: | kiss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch one's lips to another's |
| Synonyms: | French, blow, brush, butterfly, glance, graze, greet, lip, make out, mush, neck, osculate, peck, pucker up, salute, smack*, smooch |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen on |
| Synonyms: | accost, affront, brush against, bump into, chance on, clash, collide, come across, come up against, confront, contact, cross, dig up, encounter, engage, experience, face, fall in with, find, front, get together, grapple, greet, hit, light, luck*, make a meet, meet face to face, rendezvous with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run up against, salute, see, strike, stumble, touch shoulders, tumble, tussle, wrestle |
| Antonyms: | miss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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