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You can make 25 words from greet according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of greet

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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word greet. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in greet.

Definitions and meaning of greet

greet

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology 1

From Middle English greten, from Old English grētan, from Proto-Germanic *grōtijaną.

Verb

greet (third-person singular simple present greets, present participle greeting, simple past and past participle greeted)

1. (transitive) To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing.
2. (transitive) To arrive at or reach, or meet.
3. (transitive) To accost; to address.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To meet and give salutations.
5. (transitive, figurative) To be perceived by (someone).

Derived terms

• greeter
• meet-and-greet
• regreet

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English greet, grete (“great”).

Adjective

greet (comparative more greet, superlative most greet)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) Great.

Etymology 3

From a blend of two Old English verbs, grētan, grǣtan (itself from Proto-Germanic *grētaną); and of Old English grēotan (itself from Proto-Germanic *greutaną), both meaning "to weep, lament".

Verb

greet (third-person singular simple present greets, present participle greeting, simple past and past participle greeted or grat or grutten)

2. (Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.

Related terms

• regret

Noun

greet (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

Further reading

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• “greet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Geter, egret, reget

Middle English

Adjective

greet (plural and weak singular greete, comparative greter, superlative gretest)

1. Alternative form of grete

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrit/

Etymology 1

From a blend of two Old English verbs, grētan (cognate with Swedish gråta', Danish græde) and grēotan (of uncertain ultimate origin), both ‘weep, lament’.

Verb

greet (third-person singular simple present greets, present participle greetin, simple past grat or grettit, past participle grutten)

1. to weep, lament

Noun

greet (uncountable)

1. cry, lamentation

Etymology 2

Adjective

greet (comparative greeter, superlative greetest)

1. Alternative form of great