Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language and is synonymous with other greetings such as Hi or Hey. Hello was recorded in dictionaries in 1883. First use Many stories date the first use of hello (with that spelling) to around the time of the invention of the telephone in 1876.It was, however, used in print in Roughing It by Mark Twain in 1872 (written between 1870 and 1871), so its first use must have predated the telephone: "A miner came out and said: 'Hello!" Earlier uses can be found back to 1849 and 1846: "We meet the boys here, and it is "Hello, George," or "Hello, Jim." We slap the judge of the supreme court on the back with a "Hello, Joe, how are you?" It was listed in dictionaries by 1883. The word was extensively used in

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