English Explanatory Dictionary

reception

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of receiving.
  2. The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
  3. A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
  4. A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
  5. The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
  6. The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
  7. The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
  8. The act of catching a pass.
  9. 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.

Pronunciation

/ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/ en-us-reception.ogg

Word forms

reception receptions

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.

Synonyms

receipt front desk kindergarten

Related words

receptacle receptive receptible receptor receive

Derived words

autoreception baroreception chemoreception critical reception electroreception magnetoreception mechanoreception nonreception osmoreception phonoreception photoception photoreception proprioception radio reception receptional reception center reception centre reception chair reception desk receptionism receptionist receptionless reception room reception shed reception wiki telereception thermoreception wedding reception

Translations

Arabic: مَكْتَب الِاسْتِقْبَال Arabic: الاستقبال Armenian: ընդունարան Belarusian: прыёмная Belarusian: рэгістрату́ра Bulgarian: реце́пция Catalan: recepció Chinese Mandarin: 接待處 /接待处 Chinese Mandarin: 櫃檯 /柜台 Chinese Mandarin: 前臺 /前台 Chinese Mandarin: 接受處 /接受处 Czech: recepce Danish: reception Dutch: receptie Dutch: balie Esperanto: akceptejo Estonian: vastuvõtt Finnish: vastaanotto French: réception Galician: recepción Georgian: მისაღები German: Rezeption German: Empfang Greek: υποδοχή Greek: ρεσεψιόν Hungarian: recepció Irish: deasc fáiltithe Italian: reception Italian: ricezione Japanese: 受付 Japanese: フロント Japanese: レセプション Korean: 접수처 Korean: 리셉션 Korean: 프런트 Macedonian: реце́пција Macedonian: ша́лтер Māori: taupaepae Norwegian Bokmål: resepsjon Norwegian Nynorsk: resepsjon Iranian Persian: پَذیرِش Polish: recepcja Portuguese: recepção Russian: приёмная Russian: сто́йка администра́тора Russian: регистрату́ра Russian: ресе́пшен Russian: реце́пция Serbo-Croatian: recepcija Slovak: recepcia Spanish: recepción Swahili: mapokezi Swedish: reception Swedish: vakt Turkish: resepsiyon Ukrainian: прийма́льня Ukrainian: реєстрату́ра Vietnamese: phòng lễ tân Vietnamese: quầy lễ tân Welsh: derbynfa
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