welcome

Meaning

Adj

1. Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.
2. Producing gladness.
3. Free to have or enjoy gratuitously.

Intj

1. Greeting given upon someone's arrival.
2. Ellipsis of you're welcome.

Noun

1. The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.
2. The utterance of such a greeting.
3. Kind reception of a guest or newcomer.
4. The state of being a welcome guest.

Verb

1. To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".
2. To accept something willingly or gladly.

Concepts

welcome

greet

receive

reception

accept

greeting

meet

salute

hospitality

agreeable

hail

entertain

invite

serving

salutation

dear

acceptance

preferential treatment

warm reception

pleasant

pleasing

beloved

esteemed

summon

long wished for

desired

you’re welcome

agree

admit

usher in

integrate

cordial reception

acknowledge

receivable

nice to see you

meeting

appreciated

evoking gratitude

grateful

thankful

delightful

lively

light conversation

small talk

appreciate

be appreciative

thank

desirable

favorable

favourable

cordiality

friendliness

join in

praise

favourite

liked

happy arrival

call to

aloha

glad-hand

pay attention to

show hospitality to

celebrate

warmly greet

greetings

acceptable

bow

give respect

show respect

enjoyable

nice

hello

consent

thank you

administer

assume

do the honors

pick up

see

take

at home

levee

reception desk

reception line

response

surgery

please

host

longed-for

hospitable

kind

provide for

smile

relished

well-accepted

entertainment

come in

call for

canvass for

poster

signboard

graft

succeed to

treatment

well done

accost

salutatory address

Hyphenated as

wel‧come

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɛlkəm/

Etymology

From Middle English welcome, wolcume, wulcume, wilcume, from Old English wilcuma (“a wished-for guest”; compare also wilcume (“welcome!”, interjection)), from Proto-West Germanic *willjakwemō, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwemô (“a wished-for arrival or guest”), possibly from *wiljakwemaną (“to be welcome”), equivalent to will (“desire”) + come (“comer, arrival”). The component wil- was replaced by wel- when the sense “guest” of the second component was no longer understood, likely under influence from the adverb well. Cognate with Scots walcome, West Frisian wolkom, Dutch welkom (earlier willecome), German willkommen, German Low German willkamen, Danish velkommen, Norwegian Bokmål velkommen, Norwegian Nynorsk velkomen, velkommen, Swedish välkommen, Icelandic velkominn, Faroese vælkomin, and Old French wilecome (whence Middle French willecomme (“welcome”)), from Germanic.
The verb is from Middle English welcomen, wolcumen, wilcumen, from Old English wellcumian, wylcumian, wilcumian (“to welcome, receive gladly”).
Similar constructions are found in Romance languages, such as Italian benvenuto, Spanish bienvenido, French bienvenu, Catalan benvingut, Portuguese bem-vindo and Romanian bun venit, meaning “[may you have fared] well [in] coming [here]”. These do not derive from a Classical Latin root, as no similar construction in Latin is found to exist, but are instead presumed to be the result of a calque from, considering the ruling elite of the Germanic kingdoms which succeeded the Western Roman Empire, a Germanic language into Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin; see Latin *bene venūtus, and compare perdōnō and compāniō for similar historical calques).