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hi

interjectionnounadjectivetop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • //haɪ//
  • //haːj//

A friendly, informal, casual greeting said upon someone's arrival.

interjection

  1. 1

    A friendly, informal, casual greeting said upon someone's arrival.

    Hi, how are you?

    I just dropped by to say “hi”.

    Anna: Pete, hi! Hi, we are here! — Pete: Hi, Anna! Hi, Marsha! — Anna: Hi! — Pete: How are you two? — Marsha: I am great!

    When out on the prairie, up galloped an Indian on his pony with his saluting "hi!"

  2. 2

    An exclamation to call attention.

    I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

    'Come back now!' shouted Sam. 'Hi! Come back!' But Gollum had vanished.

  3. 3

    Expressing wonder or derision.

    How did he do that, hi?

    That’s mad, hi!

Etymology

American English. First recorded reference is to speech of a Kansas Indian (1862); originally to attract attention, probably a variant of Middle English hey, hy (circa 1475). Also an exclamation to call attention. See hey.

noun

  1. 1

    The word "hi" used as a greeting.

    I didn't even get a hi.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of highinformalInformal spelling of high, often in hyphenated terms.

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Etymology

From high.

Forms

plural
his
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).