Word Meanings - RECEPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence. 2. The state of being received. 3. The act or manner of receiving, esp.

Additional info about word: RECEPTION

1. The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence. 2. The state of being received. 3. The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception. What reception a poem may find. Goldsmith. 4. Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine. Philosophers who have quitted the popular doctrines of their countries have fallen into as extravagant opinions as even common reception countenanced. Locke. 5. A retaking; a recovery. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECEPTION)

• Admittance
• Introduction
• entrance
• pass
• permit
• passport
• privilege
• acceptance
• welcome
• reception
• Audience
• Hearers
• assembly
• auditory
• conference
• parley
• interview
• Receipt
• Acknowledgment
• voucher
• Welcome
• Reception
• salutation

Related words: (words related to RECEPTION)

• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• PERMIT
  1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
• AUDIENCE
  1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton. 2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
• RECEIPTOR
  One who receipts; specifically , one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.
• PERMITTER
  One who permits. A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards.
• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• ASSEMBLY
  A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
• PERMITTEE
  One to whom a permission or permit is given.
• RECEIPT
  1. The act of receiving; reception. "At the receipt of your letter." Shak. 2. Reception, as an act of hospitality. Thy kind receipt of me. Chapman. 3. Capability of receiving; capacity. It has become a place of great receipt. Evelyn. 4. Place of
• AUDITORY
  Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. Auditory canal , the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.
• PRIVILEGE
  See CHILDREN (more info) law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, 1. A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment
• PRIVILEGED
  Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his
• INTERVIEWING
  The act or custom of holding an interview or interviews. An article on interviewing in the "Nation" of January 28, 1869, . . . was the first formal notice of the practice under that name. The American.
• PASSPORT
  port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See 1. Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land
• ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude. 2. The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth,
• PERMITTANCE
  The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton.
• INTERVIEWER
  One who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication. It would have made him the prince of interviewers in these days. Leslie Stephen.
• WELCOMER
  One who welcomes; one who salutes, or receives kindly, a newcomer. Shak.
• SALUTATION
  The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting. In all public meetings or private
• PARLEY
  Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce. We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain. Dryden. To beat a parley , to beat a drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding
• PLAUDITORY
  Applauding; commending.
• PREAUDIENCE
  Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers. Blackstone.
• WATER PRIVILEGE
  The advantage of using water as a mechanical power; also, the place where water is, or may be, so used. See under Privilege.
• READMITTANCE
  Allowance to enter again; a second admission.