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"GREETINGS" is a plural of: greeting. |
Date "GREETINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonym: GREETINGSSynonym: Salutations. (additional references) |
Crosswords: GREETINGS |
| English words defined with "GREETINGS": card, ceremonious, conventional ♦ greet, greeting card ♦ recognise, recognize. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GREETINGS": Delight, demoscene ♦ Hermas ♦ Pudens. (references) |
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Screenplays | Greetings to you, Earthlings, I am Princess Dragon Mom. I have taken over this planet, now I own the Earth and you'll be my slaves for all eternity (Jung-Gwok chiu-yan; writing credit: Chakrapani) I bring greetings from your friends the British and from the great Lord Chelmsford (Zulu Dawn; writing credit: Cy Endfield; Anthony Story) From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man greetings. (Nineteen Eighty-Four; writing credit: Jonathan Gems; George Orwell) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Greetings (1968) Exchanging Greetings and Introductions (1960) Greetings Bait (1943) Holiday Greetings 1941 (1941) Seasons Greetings (1931) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Army Sgt. Chris Seaton videotapes a holiday greeting for release to hometown television and cable outlets across the United States. Seaton's Army/Air Force Hometown News Team recorded more than 3,400 holiday greetings during visits to Army and Air Force i. |  | Birthday Greetings from Four Lactated Food Babies. : Their mothers say their lives were saved by Lactated Food. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. American National Red Cross : Greetings from the American Red Cross enroute from camp to embarkation point. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Members of the carrier's Ordnance Department pose with decorated 2000-pound bombs, during Korean War operations, 9 March 1951. Messages painted on the bombs are: "Greetings from PhilCee"; "Happy Easter"; and "Listen! To This One it will Kill you". Among the planes parked in the background are F4U-4Bs of Fighter Squadron 113 (VF-113). Credit: NAVY. |
 | School students send greetings, Slobodskoi, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |  | Exchanging season's greetings. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | 86th birthday greetings. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mountain people and farmers exchanging news and greetings near the courthouse on court day. Campton, Wolfe County, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Farmers exchange news and greetings in front of courthouse on Saturday afternoon. Versailles, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Cease! This is Christmas Day and no occasion for unseemly levity! The Webster alliance submits suitable greetings". Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Cloud on the lake" by Nik Frey Commentary: "Shot from the expo 02 of switzerland - greetings to my brother." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou, to the archbishop, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justiciaries, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his bailiffs and liege subjects, greetings. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Formal greetings can take several minutes. (references) | |
Travel | Denmark | Danes shake hands both for greetings upon arrival and departure from a meeting. (references) |
Israel | English is widely spoken in the business community and in government offices, but knowing and using a few words in Hebrew, especially introductory phrases and greetings can be very useful. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Women should take the lead in greetings and in offering a handshake; traditional Uzbek women do not normally shake hands, and well-behaved men do not take the lead in greeting unknown women. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Martha Stewart | Well, Christmas is big, Valentine's is wonderfully big for flowers and chocolates, and for me it's big because I get to send all my men friends little greetings and little presents and stuff. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "GREETINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GREETINGS" is used about 319 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 319 | 16,154 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | International Greetings plc | USA | American Greetings Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "GREETINGS": birthday greetings ♦ christmas greetings ♦ convey greetings ♦ exchange greetings ♦ greetings card ♦ season's greetings ♦ with greetings. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GREETINGS": greetings-cards. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
perfect greetings.com | 41 |
hallmark greetings.com | 15 |
greetings.com sly | 3 |
archies greetings.com | 3 |
greetings.com sandbox | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GREETINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | të fala (compliments, love, regard, regards, remembrances, respects, salutations). (various references) | |
Arabic | ترحيبات. (various references) | |
Basque | agurrak. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | коледни поздравления (season's greetings). (various references) | |
Catalan | salutacions. (various references) | |
Chinese | 寒喧 (discuss the weather, exchange greetings). (various references) | |
Croatian | pozdravi (greeting). (various references) | |
Czech | vymìnit si pozdravy (exchange greetings), pozdravit se (exchange greetings), blahopřání k narozeninám (birthday greetings). (various references) | |
Danish | hilsen (greeting). (various references) | |
Dutch | groeten (greet, salute), begroetingen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | salutoj. (various references) | |
Finnish | tervehdykset. (various references) | |
French | salutations. (various references) | |
French Canadian | salutations. (various references) | |
Galician | saúdos. (various references) | |
German | Grüße (regards, respects, salutations). (various references) | |
Greek | χαιρετίσματα (compliment). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tahiyat (prayer greeting God), salut (admire, respect, salute). (various references) | |
Italian | saluti (regards, you greet). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 賀詞 (congratulations), 賀詞 (congratulations), 御慶 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょけい, がし (artist, congratulations, drawing paper, painter, painter supported by patron, starvation). (various references) | |
Luganda | n'okubuuzaganya (and greetings, and to extend greetings). (various references) | |
Manx | Bannaghtyn y Vlein Noa (New Year Greetings), Bannaghtyn y Nollick (Christmas Greetings). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eetingsgray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | saudações (best regards), recordações (memories, vista). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | saudações. (various references) | |
Romanian | salutãri (salutations). (various references) | |
Russian | поздравительная открытка (greetings card). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pozdravi (compliments, regards, remembrances). (various references) | |
Slovene | pozdravi, pozdrave. (various references) | |
Sotho | dumelang, dumela, ditumediso. (various references) | |
Spanish | recuerdos (regards, respects), expresiones (expressions, regards), bienvenido (acceptable, welcome). (various references) | |
Swedish | hälsningar (compliments, love, regard, regards). (various references) | |
Turkish | selamlar (remembrances, respects). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | привіт (ave, chin chin, greeting, hail, hallo, hello, regards, respects). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai touV aspasmouV en taiV agoraiV kai kaleisqai upo twn anqrwpwn rabbi rabbi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et salutationes in foro et vocari ab hominibus rabbi |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & þt hy men grete on stræten. & þt hyman manne lareowes nemnie. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And salutaciouns in chepyng, and to be clepid of men maystir. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And gretinges in the marketes and to be called of men Rabi. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And greetings in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men, Teacher. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 7 |
| Cebuano | ug ang mga pagyukbo kanila diha sa mga tiyanggihan, ug ang pagtawag kanilag "Rabi" sa mga tawo. |
| Chinese | 又 喜 愛 人 在 街 市 上 問 他 安 、 稱 呼 他 拉 比 。 〔 拉 比 就 是 夫 子 〕 |
| Croatian | pozdrave na trgovima i da ih ljudi zovu 'Rabbi'. |
| Danish | og lade sig hilse på Torvene og kaldes Rabbi af Menneskene. |
| Dutch | Ook de begroetingen op de markten, en van de mensen genaamd te worden: Rabbi, Rabbi! |
| Finnish | ja tahtovat mielellään, että heitä tervehditään toreilla, ja että ihmiset kutsuvat heitä nimellä `rabbi`. |
| French | ils aiment à être salués dans les places publiques, et à être appelés par les hommes Rabbi, Rabbi. |
| German | und haben's gern, daß sie gegrüßt werden auf dem Markt und von den Menschen Rabbi genannt werden. |
| Haitian Creole | Yo renmen pou moun di yo bonjou jouk atè lè yo sou plas piblik, pou moun rele yo: Mèt, Mèt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka senang dihormati orang di pasar-pasar, dan dipanggil 'Bapak Guru'. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan suka mereka itu diberi hormat di pasar, dan suka dipanggil orang Guru Besar. |
| Italian | e i saluti nelle piazze, come anche sentirsi chiamare "rabbì'' dalla gente. |
| Manx Gaelic | As sleih dy vannaghey daue ayns ny margaghyn, as dy ve enmyssit liorish deiney, Rabbi, Rabbi. |
| Maori | Me nga ohatanga i nga kainga hokohoko, a kia karangatia e te tangata, E Rapi. |
| Norwegian | og få hilsninger på torvene og kalles rabbi av menneskene. |
| Portuguese | das saudações nas praças, e de serem chamados pelos homens: Rabi. |
| Rumanian | le place sq le facq oamenii plecqciuni prin pieye, wi sq le zicq: ,Rabi! Rabi!` |
| Russian | Й РТЙЧЕФУФЧЙС Ч ОБТПДОЩИ УПВТБОЙСИ, Й ЮФПВЩ МАДЙ ЪЧБМЙ ЙИ: ХЮЙФЕМШ! ХЮЙФЕМШ! |
| Shuar | Jintiá wekainiaksha Ashí aents áujtuiniak "Jintínkiartiniá" turutiarti tusa wakeruiniawai' Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | las salutaciones en las plazas y el ser llamados por los hombres: Rabí, Rabí. |
| Swedish | och vilja gärna bliva hälsade på torgen och av människorna kallas 'rabbi'. |
| Uma | Goe' -ra ane ria tauna hi wiwi' karajaa motingkua' mpotabe-ra pai' mpokahangai' -ra `Guru.' |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"GREETINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gersting, greating, Greatrigg, greatting, greeking, greetin, greettings, gretings, grettings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GREETINGS" (pronounced grē"tingz) |
| 5 | -ē" t i ng z | beatings, meetings, seatings. |
| 4 | -t i ng z | castings, coatings, cuttings, everlastings, fightings, fittings, frostings, hustings, listings, marketings, outings, paintings, plantings, postings, printings, ratings, settings, shootings, sightings, whitings, writings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, ceilings, clippings, closings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earnings, earrings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, facings, failings, fastenings, feedings, feelings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, firings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, innings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, markings, meanings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, openings, pickings, pilings, pleadings, poisonings, posturings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, runnings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seedlings, servings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, winnings, workings, wrongdoings, yearlings, yearnings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: egesting, gentries, greeting, integers, reesting, steering. | |
-2 letters: entires, entries, gerents, gingers, greeing, greiges, greisen, integer, regents, resting, retines, serging, snigger, stinger, treeing, trienes. | |
-3 letters: eggers, egrets, engirt, enters, entire, estrin, geeing, genets, genies, genres, gentes, gerent, ginger, greens, greets, greige, inerts, ingest, insert, inters, nereis, nester, niters, nitres, regent, reigns, renest, renigs, rentes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-g-i-n-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: redigesting, registering, segregating, segregation. | |
+3 letters: geometrising, predigesting, segregations. | |
+4 letters: aggrievements, desegregating, desegregation, enregistering, exaggerations, gerontologies, progestogenic, reregistering, resegregating, resegregation, retrogressing, strengthening, theatergoings. | |
+5 letters: desegregations, misregistering, nonsegregation, predesignating, preregistering, reaggregations, resegregations, segregationist, stereographing, tergiversating. | |
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