well met
A cordial greeting
Well met is an old-fashioned greeting expressing pleasure at encountering someone, now largely confined to historical fiction and fantasy settings: Well met, traveler!
The phrase suggests a fortunate or auspicious meeting.
It survives mainly in the expression hail-fellow-well-met, describing someone who is heartily friendly, often excessively or insincerely so.
- greetAcknowledge upon meeting
- helloCommon spoken greeting
- chivalricOf knightly conduct
- friendshipBond of mutual affection
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
warm welcome · hail · good morrow · warmth · camaraderie · Shakespearean · handshake · fellowship · good day · faire · archaic · poetic · medieval · Renaissance faire · embracing · joy · bowing · delight
greeting vs. parting
well metfarewell
Leave-taking expression
adieu · godspeed · goodbye · fare thee well · parting words