Welcome
['welkəm] or ['wɛlkəm]
Definition
(noun.) a greeting or reception; 'the proposal got a warm welcome'.
(noun.) the state of being welcome; 'don't outstay your welcome'.
(verb.) bid welcome to; greet upon arrival.
(verb.) receive someone, as into one's house.
(verb.) accept gladly; 'I welcome your proposals'.
(adj.) giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted; 'a welcome relief'; 'a welcome guest'; 'made the children feel welcome'; 'you are welcome to join us' .
Editor: Wendell--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.
(n.) Producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present; welcome news.
(n.) Free to have or enjoy gratuitously; as, you are welcome to the use of my library.
(n.) Salutation to a newcomer.
(n.) Kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the house and found a ready welcome.
(v. t.) To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor; to welcome a new idea.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Greeting, salutation.[2]. Kind reception.
v. a. Greet, receive, bid welcome.
a. [1]. Gladly received or entertained, admitted with pleasure.[2]. Acceptable, pleasing, agreeable, pleasant, grateful, gratifying.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Grateful, acceptable, pleasant, agreeable, gratifying, pleasing
ANT:Unwelcome, ungrateful, unacceptable, distasteful, unpleasant, disagreeable
SYN:Reception, salutation
ANT:Repudiation, repulsion
Checker: Sandra
Definition
adj. received with gladness: admitted willingly: causing gladness: free to enjoy.—n. kindly reception.—v.t. to receive with kindness: to entertain hospitably.—ns. Wel′comeness; Wel′comer one who welcomes.—Bid a welcome to receive with professions of kindness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you receive a warm welcome into any society, foretells that you will become distinguished among your acquaintances and will have deference shown you by strangers. Your fortune will approximate anticipation. To accord others welcome, denotes your congeniality and warm nature will be your passport into pleasures, or any other desired place.
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Examples
- While there's a handful of fire or a mouthful of bed in this present roof, you're fully welcome to your share on it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Go up and welcome; but my wife is at Bellomont. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Some of the office employees would also drop in once in a while, and as everybody present was always welcome to partake of the midnight meal, we all enjoyed these gatherings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I doubt, he said, if he would even welcome Dejah Thoris' return, for it would mean another nearer the throne than he. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Please remember that there is always a welcome waiting for you over the way. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I told him I was rejoiced to be by chance among the first to welcome him home to England. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I must feelI must be wretchedand they are welcome to enjoy the consciousness of it that can. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Fanny's last meal in her father's house was in character with her first: she was dismissed from it as hospitably as she had been welcomed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Adrian welcomed us on our arrival. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The lady now entered the room, and welcomed me with an appearance of real pleasure. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She accepted him, and he was warmly welcomed into that rich and influential family. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mrs. Farebrother welcomed the guest with a lively formality and precision. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Tom Moody rides up to the door of the Hall, where he is welcomed by the butler, who offers him drink, which he declines. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I have welcomed many gentlemen to these walls. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- At first the effect is unconscious; but when reason arrives, then he who has been thus trained welcomes her as the friend whom he always knew. Plato. The Republic.
- Mrs Veneering welcomes her sweet Mr Twemlow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There are no flocks out on the mountains; and it is well, for to-night she welcomes ?olus. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr Veneering welcomes his dear Twemlow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All the more reason, therefore, for an attitude of mind which actively welcomes suggestions and relevant information from all sides. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If he had spared her that she could have drowned quietly, welcoming the dark flood as it submerged her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I'm obleeged to you, sir, for your welcoming manner of me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The welcoming party hung back till their visitor entered the hall. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He called on the Colonel, on pretence of welcoming him back to England. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I hope I have the honour of welcoming you in good health, Sir Leicester? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- To genuine proselytes of whatever race, Judaism long held out welcoming arms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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