reception
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/
The English word “reception” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act of receiving.
- The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
- A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
- A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
- The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
- The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
- The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
- The act of catching a pass.
- 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.
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 (“to hold”). Equivalent to receive + -tion.
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “reception” there
More English words
- receptaculum chyli
- receptary
- receptibility
- receptible
- reception center
- reception chair
- reception desk
- reception room
About this dictionary
The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.
Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.