different between welcoming vs salute

English

Etymology 1

From welcome +? -ing.

Adjective

welcoming (comparative more welcoming, superlative most welcoming)

1. hospitable, accessible and cordial.

Derived terms

• welcomingly
• welcomingness

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English welcomyng, equivalent to welcome +? -ing.

Verb

welcoming

1. present participle of welcome

Etymology 3

From Middle English welcominge, welcomyng, equivalent to welcome +? -ing.

Noun

welcoming (plural welcomings)

1. An act of giving welcome.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sal?t? (“to greet; to wish health to”), from sal?s (“greeting, good health”), related to salvus (“safe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??l(j)u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??lut/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Hyphenation: sa?lute

Noun

salute (plural salutes)

1. An utterance or gesture expressing greeting or honor towards someone, now especially a formal, non-verbal gesture made with the arms or hands in any of various specific positions. [from 15th c.]
2. A kiss, offered in salutation. [from 16th c.]
   • 1775, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 8 May:

     [M]aking an apology which, not suspecting his intention, I did not understand, – he gave me a most ardent salute! I have seldom been more surprised. I had no idea of his taking such a freedom.

3. (military, nautical) A discharge of cannon or similar arms, as a mark of honour or respect. [from 17th c.]
4. A pyrotechnic device primarily designed to produce a loud bang.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

salute (third-person singular simple present salutes, present participle saluting, simple past and past participle saluted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a gesture in honor of (someone or something).
   • 1943 June 19, New York Times, quoted in 2000, Terry Eastland, Freedom of Expression in the Supreme Court: The Defining Cases, page 64,

     Yet the simple fact stands that a school child compelled to salute the flag, when he has been taught the flag is an "image" which the Bible forbids him to worship, is in effect made to say what he does not believe.
2. To act in thanks, honor, or tribute; to thank or extend gratitude; to praise.
3. (Ireland, informal) to wave, to acknowledge an acquaintance.

4. To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.
5. To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify.
6. (archaic) To kiss.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 220:

     Twice indeed with rapture, which once she called rude, did I salute her; and each time, resenting the freedom, did she retire […] .

   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:

     [T]his young gentleman, who was naturally facetious, in taking his leave, saluted us all round. My lord, who had before entertained some jealousy of his kinsman, was very much provoked by this trifling incident […] .

Derived terms

• saluter

Related terms

• salubrious
• salutary
• salutation

Translations

See also

• hello, hi
• gesundheit
• toast
• greet, greeting
• to your health, bless you

Further reading

• salute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Aleuts, setula

Corsican

Interjection

salute

1. hello, hi

Italian

Etymology

From Latin sal?tem, accusative singular of sal?s, from Proto-Indo-European *solh?- (“whole, completed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?lu.te/

Noun

salute f (plural saluti)

1. health, wellbeing

Interjection

salute!

1. cheers!
2. bless you!

Anagrams

• esulta

Latin

Noun

sal?te

1. ablative singular of sal?s

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?lyte/

Noun

salute f

1. health, wellbeing

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sa?lute]

Verb

salute

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of saluta
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of saluta