SALUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salute mean? 

• SALUTE (noun)
  The noun SALUTE has 3 senses:

1. an act of honor or courteous recognition

2. a formal military gesture of respect

3. an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat

  Familiarity information: SALUTE used as a noun is uncommon.

• SALUTE (verb)
  The verb SALUTE has 6 senses:

1. propose a toast to

2. greet in a friendly way

3. express commendation of

4. become noticeable

5. honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers

6. recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position

  Familiarity information: SALUTE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALUTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An act of honor or courteous recognition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

salutation; salute

Context example:

a musical salute to the composer on his birthday

Hypernyms ("salute" is a kind of...):

credit; recognition (approval)

Derivation:

salute (propose a toast to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A formal military gesture of respect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

military greeting; salute

Hypernyms ("salute" is a kind of...):

greeting; salutation ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Derivation:

salute (recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position)

salute (honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("salute" is a kind of...):

greeting; salutation ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))

Derivation:

salute (greet in a friendly way)

• SALUTE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they salute    ... he / she / it salutes   
Past simple: saluted   
Past participle: saluted   
-ing form: saluting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Propose a toast to

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

drink; pledge; salute; toast; wassail

Context example:

Let's drink to the New Year

Hypernyms (to "salute" is one way to...):

honor; honour; reward (bestow honor or rewards upon)

"Salute" entails doing...:

booze; drink; fuddle; hit the bottle (consume alcohol)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "salute"):

give (propose)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

salutation; salute (an act of honor or courteous recognition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Greet in a friendly way

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

I meet this men every day on my way to work and he salutes me

Hypernyms (to "salute" is one way to...):

greet; recognise; recognize (express greetings upon meeting someone)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "salute"):

salaam (greet with a salaam)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

salutation (word of greeting used to begin a letter)

salutation ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))

salute (an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat)

saluter (a person who greets)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Express commendation of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

I salute your courage!

Hypernyms (to "salute" is one way to...):

praise (express approval of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Become noticeable

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

a terrible stench saluted our nostrils

Hypernyms (to "salute" is one way to...):

smell (smell bad)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "salute" is one way to...):

greet; recognise; recognize (express greetings upon meeting someone)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

salutation (an act of honor or courteous recognition)

salute (a formal military gesture of respect)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

present; salute

Context example:

When the officers show up, the soldiers have to salute

Hypernyms (to "salute" is one way to...):

greet; recognise; recognize (express greetings upon meeting someone)

"Salute" entails doing...:

gesticulate; gesture; motion (show, express or direct through movement)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

salute (a formal military gesture of respect)

 Context examples 

“Not I, sir,” said Morgan with a salute.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The archer raised his hand in salute, and hastened forward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saluted and stood sailor-fashion, turning his cap round in his hands.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saluted me in a hearty way, and hoped that I had had a good night's rest.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Sherlock Holmes was well known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Contented sounds saluted his ear, and when he heard the angry voice of a woman he knew it to be the anger that proceeds from a full stomach.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He gave a tchk of the tongue, shook his reins, saluted with his whip; in true coachman’s style, and away he went, taking the curve out of the square in a workmanlike fashion that fetched a cheer from the crowd.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He reined up his horse to salute my mother, and said he was going to Lowestoft to see some friends who were there with a yacht, and merrily proposed to take me on the saddle before him if I would like the ride.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I felt light, and hunger, and thirst, and darkness; innumerable sounds rang in my ears, and on all sides various scents saluted me; the only object that I could distinguish was the bright moon, and I fixed my eyes on that with pleasure.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There are no such things as marble kisses or ice kisses, or I should say my ecclesiastical cousin's salute belonged to one of these classes; but there may be experiment kisses, and his was an experiment kiss.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)