# greeter
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English greter, gretter, equivalent to greet +‎ -er.

### Noun

greeter (plural greeters)
* A person who greets people on their arrival.
    Walmart greeter
** 1976, Daniel M. Gaby, Merle H. Treusch, Election Campaign Handbook, page 303:The greeter is standing most or all of the time, and the weather may be unpleasant at that time of the year. If the greeter can bring a folding chair to sit on in slow periods, so much the better.
** 1986, James Cleary, Prosecuting the Shoplifter: A Loss Prevention Strategy, page 220:Plaintiff testified that the store greeter was talking in a loud and rude manner.
** 1995, Paul Seibert, Facilities Planning and Design for Financial Institutions, page 163:The greeter makes immediate eye contact with customers, making them feel important, and unknown guests can be addressed as they enter to determine their purpose, which also discourages robbers.
** 2004, Daniel D. McCracken, Rosalee Jean Wolfe, User-centered Website Development, page 141:At the beginning of the test, the greeter welcomes the test user to the test facility and carries out all the necessary pretest activities, which include ice-breaking, explaining the purpose and format of the test, obtaining informed consent, and perhaps administering a pre-test questionnaire.
** 2014, Annette Schroeder, Welcome to Our Church:What do I do if someone faints during the worship service? It's only natural as an usher or greeter to have questions like these.
** 2024 January 14, Tim Adams, “The big picture: layers of nostalgia on London’s Oxford Street”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:But it is the combination of the self-consciously vintage HMV sign – with all its vinyl associations – and the bowler-hatted man at the kerbside (a now redundant Oxford Street “greeter”) that properly opens up those possibilities.
* (tourism) A volunteer who shows tourists around their home city or region for free.
** 1998, Proceedings from the Australian Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference, page 208:Visitors are matched with a volunteer Greeter according to shared interests and languages spoken, and their 3-4 hours together is a combination of what the Greeter has to offer and the visitor wants to know.
** 2013, John A. Richardson, Grey Nomads, page 75:The greeter system — a free service provided by volunteers — is popular in several cities throughout the world.
** 2017, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sandra Guinand, Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises, page 54:This tourism is based on tourists' quest for an 'authentic experience', by spreading throughout the entire city (admittedly with a predilection for gentrifying neighbourhoods), seeking 'off the beaten track' (but always secure) itineraries (Djament-Tran and Guinand, 2014; Maitland, 2013; Maitland and Newman, 2014), going for a walk with a local 'greeter' and, above all, staying in a local's home.
** 2021, Isabelle Frochot, A Practical Guide to Managing Tourist Experiences:Many greeter associations now exist across the world.

### Further reading

* “greeter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* regreet

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English greeter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʁi.tœʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

greeter m or f by sense (plural greeters)
* (tourism, anglicism) greeter (volunteer who shows tourists around their home city or region for free)