Definitions
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- interjection A greeting.
- noun Plural form of
salutation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Good morning dick riders! greetings and salutations from the computer lab.
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“Khayr o (we) Áfiyah,” a popular phrase much used in salutations, &c.
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I have taken particular pains with what you may call salutations, such as one man gives another as they pass each other on a journey, or what one says on entering a house or a village.
The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition Joseph [Illustrator] Nash 1867
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He begins an email to a client with "salutations" or "good morning" or sometimes "to whom it may concern."
Hey, Folks: Here's a Digital Requiem For a Dearly Departed Salutation Dionne Searcey 2011
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Saddam does not stop demagoging the Palestinian issue, even inside his cell, and he,again, sent his "salutations" to the "heroic Palestinian people" as if they need his support and salutations.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005 As'ad 2005
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After "salutations," as they say in the East, he wasted ten more minutes in abusing the cook, ending up with a direct appeal for his son's estimate of her capacities.
Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Dignified salutations, meaning smiles are exchanged, while the mourning equipages rumble along the paths at a gallop, displaying lines of black-coated drivers, with rounded backs, hats _en bataille_, capes floating in the wind caused by their swift pace.
The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868
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In most of the letters, romance remains not so much an undercurrent as a charming above-ground stream of salutations and vocatives: she is his “Darling,” he her “dear boy.”
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United agents start with "good morning" or "good evening," salutations that have been chosen for the merged airline.
How Do We Check In Antlers? Susan Carey 2011
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On her blog, the author Amy Tan has mused about evolving salutations she has noticed in her inbox.
Hey, Folks: Here's a Digital Requiem For a Dearly Departed Salutation Dionne Searcey 2011
frindley commented on the word salutations
Charlotte: Salutations.
Wilbur: Salu-what?
Charlotte: Salutations.
Wilbur: What are they? And where are you?
Charlotte: Salutations is my fancy way of saying hello.
(from the screenplay of the 1973 film of Charlotte's Web)
Charlotte is most definitely a Wordie.
April 20, 2008
dinkum commented on the word salutations
WORD: salutations
EXAMPLE from Charlotte's Web:
Just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before.
"Salutations!" said the voice.
Wilbur jumped to his feet. "Salu-what?" he cried.
"Salutations!" repeated the voice.
"What are they, and where are you? screamed Wilbur. "Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations ?
"Salutations are greetings," said the voice. "When I say 'salutations,' it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning. Actually it's a silly expression, and I am surprised I used it at all. As for my whereabouts, that's easy. Look up here in the corner of the doorway! Here I am. Look, I'm waving!"
-- 1952 E.B. WHITE. Charlotte's Web. Chapter V -- Charlotte (pages 35 - 36).
September 25, 2013