[
UK
/səlˈuːt/
]
[ US /səˈɫut/ ]
[ US /səˈɫut/ ]
VERB
-
express commendation of
I salute your courage! -
greet in a friendly way
I meet this men every day on my way to work and he salutes me -
become noticeable
a terrible stench saluted our nostrils -
propose a toast to
Let us toast the birthday girl!
Let's drink to the New Year - honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers
-
recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position
When the officers show up, the soldiers have to salute
NOUN
- a formal military gesture of respect
- an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat
-
an act of honor or courteous recognition
a musical salute to the composer on his birthday
How To Use salute In A Sentence
- Before Malfurion could ask who she meant, Tyrande brought the glaive up in a salute and murmured something in the hidden tongue of the Sisterhood. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
- He saluted and adjusted his large round wire rimmed glasses.
- It was a sentimental and monumental event as the Brazilian government gave the Philippine president full planeside military honors complete with all the 21-gun salute. WN.com - Articles related to Chile Rejects Church Call to Pardon Officials
- We salute the flag, honer our military and are for taking care of our elderly, military and avoiding socialism. Obama invites senators from both parties to discuss vacancy
- As the two little craft pulled through the Gap, Guardian received a salute of raised paddles from the canoe, the tender lifting its oars on the gunwales for one stroke before resuming its rhythm.
- The guard saluted me smartly.
- We salute his many accomplishments as an astronaut and as a husband and father.
- Salute the bedmaker in my name — give my service to the cook, and pray take care of poor Ponto, for the sake of his old master, who is, and ever will be, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship which was then riding at anchor and waiting for its cargo.
- One after another the _antichi spiriti dolenti_ rise up and salute the new edifice: Nimrod and the Assyrians, Anglo-Saxon ealdormen and Norman knights templars, and citizens of ancient Bristol. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
