reception

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of receiving.
2. (uncountable) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
3. (countable, uncountable) A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
4. (countable, uncountable) A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
5. (countable, uncountable) The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
6. (UK, countable, uncountable) The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
7. (countable, uncountable) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
8. (countable, uncountable) The act of catching a pass.
9. (countable, uncountable) Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.

Synonyms

acceptance

welcome

receiving

receipt

🧾

reception desk

response

treatment

hospitality

receive

meeting

admission

serving

party

🥳

admittance

being given

accept

🉑

housing

greeting

👋

audibility

function

accession

accommodation

entertain

favour

getting

get-together

handling

information desk

interrelation

landing

legacy

levee

meet

method

obtainment

popularity

praise

reaction

reception area

reception room

relation

relationship

reverberation

rout

seating

serve

shelter

social gathering

socket

taking

Translations

réception

Empfang

🧾

recepción

recepção

ricevimento

🧾

accueil

ontvangst

accoglienza

ricezione

🧾

Rezeption

Aufnahme

υποδοχή

receptie

Annahme

recepció

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/

Etymology

From Middle English recepcion, reception, from Middle French reception, from Latin receptiōn- (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“I hold”). Equivalent to receive + -tion.

Sentences

The game had mediocre reception .

Again , gentlemen , I thank you for your warm-hearted reception .