hello

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It was like "hello, my name is edward ... i would do anything for you ... the end".

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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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  • Beep! Yes, hello, my name is Ruth Landis, I'm calling about your ad. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 01 - January 1995
  • We feel the changing weather -- hello, Helliconia! —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 03 - March 1999
  • Why--hello, Melton, here are iron rings sunk in the floor all along the side That settles it, then," rejoined Melton. —  The River of Darkness, or, Under Africa
  • What you gittee Smaltz whirled swiftly at the shrill demand with a startled look on his impudent face Oh--hello," he said uncertainly Why you come? —  The Man from the Bitter Roots
  • He was so weak that he staggered, and his clothes hung from him in rags; but shambling over to where his companion lay, he shook him roughly Hello, Jim--hello, there! —  The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life
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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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