Meaning & use
Ave
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An exclamation used as a greeting or salutation, meaning 'hail.'
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The choir sang 'Ave Maria' during the ceremony.
He raised his glass and called out 'ave atque vale' to his departing friend.
A note on using this word
Borrowed directly from Latin, where 'ave' was a common salutation; it survives mainly in liturgical and literary English.
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