English
Interjection
Sense: an arrival or opening salutation
Synonyms
- ciao
- good morning
- good day
- good evening
- good morrow
- greetings
- heaveno (neologism, rare)
- hello (Neutral)
- hello there (informal)
- heyday (obsolete)
- hi (informal)
- hi there (informal)
- hiya (informal)
- hey hey (informal)
- heyo
- how
- how are you [⇒ thesaurus]
- salaam
- salaam alaikum
- salutations
- shalom
- shalom aleichem
- sup (slang)
- wassup (slang)
- well met (archaic)
- what's doing (informal)
- what's going on (informal)
- what's new (informal)
- what's up (slang)
- yello (informal)
- yo (slang)
- —
- g'day (AU, informal)
- hey [⇒ thesaurus] (AU, informal)
- howdy (AU, informal)
- —
- cheerio (Commonwealth, informal)
- —
- how's it going (IE, informal)
- top of the morning (IE, archaic)
- —
- namaste (IN)
- —
- wagwan (JAM)
- —
- ayubowan (LKA)
- —
- privet (RU)
- —
- howzit (SA, informal)
- —
- alright [⇒ thesaurus] (UK, informal)
- alright me babber (UK, informal)
- alright me lover (UK, informal)
- ay up me duck (UK, informal)
- ey up (UK, informal)
- hallo (UK, informal)
- hey [⇒ thesaurus] (UK, informal)
- howdy (UK, informal)
- hullo (UK, dated)
- wotcher (UK, informal)
- —
- aloha (US)
- ayo (US, informal)
- hallo (US, informal)
- hey [⇒ thesaurus] (US, informal)
- howdy (US, informal)
Antonyms
Holonyms
Further reading
- “586. allocution” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “hello” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.