hello

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I ` m watching -- hello, my name is Glenn, and I ` m a loser.

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  1. interjection Used to greet someone, answer the telephone, or express surprise.
  2. noun A calling or greeting of "hello.”
  3. intransitive verb To call "hello.”

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  1. Alteration of hallo, alteration of obsolete holla, stop!, perhaps from Old French hola : ho, ho! + la, there (from Latin illāc, that way).

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  1. Also written hullo, rarely hillo; variant forms of hallo, q. v.
 

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/hɛˈloʊ/
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