reception

Plural: receptions

Noun

• the manner in which something is greeted
  • "she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors"
• a formal party of people; as after a wedding
• quality or fidelity of a received broadcast
• the act of receiving
• (American football) the act of catching a pass in football
  • "the tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line"
• 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.

Examples

• After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.
• The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.
• The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.
• The reception of the hotel is on the second floor; exit the lift and turn right.
• We have poor TV reception in the valley.

Synonyms

receipt, response, front desk

Related Words

receive, receptacle, receptible, receptive, receptor