Welcome

Interjection
welcome


 * 1) Greeting given upon someone’s arrival.

Verb

 * 1) to affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".
 * 2) to accept something willingly or gladly.
 * We welcome suggestions for improvement.

Adjective

 * 1) Whose arrival is a cause of joy.

Noun

 * 1) The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.
 * 2) The utterance of such a greeting.

Adjectives for Welcome
formal; courteous; healthful; comfortless; chill; familiar; tepid; hearty; smiling; preposterous; cordial; awkward; unclouded; pathetic; homely; triumphant; pure; majestic; friendly; noisy; kindred; heart-sped; royal; dismal; generous; intuitive; gracious; unquestioned; premeditated; scant; boisterous; kindly; languid; urbane; immemorial; unostentatious; frank; energetic; extraordinary; joyous; hospitable; genial; cheerful; reverend; warm; lavish; frolic.

Verbs for Welcome
assure—; bark—; bid—; bow—; embrace in—; extend—; greet with—; hail—; insure —; nod—; offer—; overstay—; rejoice in—; roar—; salute—; shout—; smile—; thunder —; win—; —cools; —flatters; —greets; — heartens; —rings.

Adverbs for Welcome
gratefully; refreshingly; cordially; sincerely; hospitably; warmly; truly; unexpectedly; supremely; encouragingly; frankly; acceptably; pleasantly; genially; graciously.

Adverbs for Welcome
smilingly; spaciously; hospitably; enthusiastically; fondly; heartily; affectionately; ecstatically; gleefully; courteously; majestically; generously; languidly; urbanely; ostentatiously; frankly; energetically; joyously; genially; lavishly.

Thesaurus
abide by, accede, accept, acceptable, acceptance, accession, acclaim, accueil, acquiesce, acquiesce in, acquiescence, acquire, affable, agree, agree to, agree with, agreeable, agreement, agreement in principle, amiable, amicable, applaud, assent, assentation, be responsible for, bigheartedness, blissful, bounteousness, bountifulness, bounty, bring down, bring on, bring upon, buy, cheer, cheerful, compatible, complaisant, compliance, comply, concurrence, congenial, consent, contract, cordial, desirable, dulcet, easy purse strings, embrace, en rapport, enjoyable, fair, fair and pleasant, fall in with, fall into, favorable, felicific, felicitous, fine, free hand, freedom, freehandedness, freeheartedness, freeness, gain, general agreement, generosity, generousness, genial, get, give the nod, givingness, glad hand, good, goodly, gracious, graciousness, grateful, gratifying, great heart, greatheartedness, greetings, hail, harmonious, heart-warming, hearty assent, hearty welcome, hold with, honeyed, hospitality, hug, in toto, incur, invite, largeheartedness, largeness, largess, liberality, liberalness, likable, magnanimity, make welcome, mellifluous, mellow, munificence, nice, nod, nod assent, open arms, open hand, open heart, openhandedness, openheartedness, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, receipt, receive, receiving, reception, refuge, rewarding, run, satisfying, smiling reception, subscribe to, support, sweet, sympathetic, take kindly to, taking in, the glad hand, unselfishness, vote for, warm assent, welcome mat, welcoming, yes, yield assent

Etymology
welcome:, welcom:, from wilcuma:, meaning literally “” (“May you have fared well in coming here!”). The Old English term was in Middle English reanalyzed, with the first element assimilated to wel:, and second element to come: (com:, cume:, cum:), presumably under influence of Old French bienvenue:, bienvenu: (Modern French bienvenue:, bienvenu:), of same ultimate origin.

Ultimately from, from which cognate to German willkommen:, Middle High German willekomen:, Old High German willechomen:, Dutch welkom:, Danish and Norwegian velkommen:, Swedish välkommen:.

Similar constructions are common in Romance languages, such as Spanish bienvenido:, French bienvenue: and Portuguese bem-vindo:, each also meaning “[may you have fared] well [in] coming [here]”. These do not derive from Classic Latin, where a similar construction is not found, and presumably are instead the result of a calque from Germanic to Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin).

Interjection

 * Afrikaans: welkom!
 * Albanian: mirë se vjen!
 * American Sign Language:
 * Amharic: እንኳን ደህና መጡ
 * Arabic: أهلا وسهلا
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: ghini vinishi, ghini vinit
 * Azeri: xoş gəlmişsiniz!
 * Basque: ongi etorri!
 * Belarusian: вiтаем (vitájem), прывiтанне (pryvitánne)
 * Bengali: স্বাগতম
 * Bosnian: dobrodošli!
 * Breton: degemer mat !
 * Bulgarian: добре дошъл (dobre došãl), добре дошли (dobre došli)
 * Catalan: benvingut!, benvinguda!  benvinguts , benvingudes
 * Cebuano: maayong pag-abot
 * Chechen: маьрша воагӀийл (märsha wooghiil), маьрша йогӀийл (märsha yooghiil) , маьрша догӀийла (märsha dooghiila)
 * Cherokee: ᎤᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ (ulihebisdi)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 歡迎光臨, 欢迎光临, ,
 * Taiwanese: 歡迎光臨, 欢迎光临 (hoan-geng5-kong-lim5)
 * Cantonese: 歡迎, 欢迎 (fòonying)
 * Hakka: 歡迎, 欢迎 (fon2 ngiang2)
 * Cornish: dynnargh dhis
 * Corsican: bonavinuta
 * Croatian: dobrodošli!
 * Czech: vítáme tě (sg/informal), vítáme vás (pl/formal)
 * Danish: velkommen!
 * Dutch: welkom!
 * Esperanto: bonvenon!
 * Estonian: tere tulemast!
 * Ewe: wòe zɔ, miawoe zɔ
 * Faroese: vælkoma
 * Finnish: tervetuloa!
 * French: bienvenue
 * Georgian: კეთილი იყოს თქვენი მობრძანება (ket'ili ikos tkʼveni mobrżaneba), კეთილი იყოს შენი მობრძანება (ket'ili ikos šeni mobrżaneba)
 * German: willkommen
 * Middle High German: willekomen!
 * Old High German: willechomen!
 * Greek: καλώς ορίσατε! (kalós orísate), καλώς ήρθες!
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Greenlandic: tikilluarit
 * Guaraní: tereg̃uahẽ porãite!, eguahé porá!
 * Hawaiian: aloha
 * Hebrew: !בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá), !ברוכה הבאה (brukhá habáa) , !ברוכים הבאים (brukhím habaím) , !ברוכות הבאות (brukhót habaót)
 * Hindi: स्वागतम, स्वागत है
 * Hungarian: ! (less formal), Isten hozta! (more formal)
 * Icelandic: velkominn!, velkomin (f sg & mixed pl), velkomnir, velkomnar
 * Ido: bonveno
 * Igbo: nno̱
 * Indonesian:
 * Standard Indonesian: selamat datang!
 * Javanese: sugeng rawuh!
 * Sundanese: wilujeng sumping!
 * Interlingua: benvenite!
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᕆᐅᙵᐃᐹ (arionngaipaa)
 * Irish:, tá fáilte romhat, tá fáilte romhaibh, , fáilte romhat isteach
 * Italian: benvenuto!, benvenuta! , benvenuti! , benvenute! , salve
 * Japanese: ようこそ, いらっしゃいませ, いらっしゃい
 * Judeo-Arabic: harif
 * Jèrriais: séyiz l'beinv'nu !, séyiz la beinv'nue !, séyiz les beinv'nus !
 * Kazakh: қош келдіңіз!, qoş keldiñiz!,
 * Khmer: ស្វាគមន៍
 * Korean: 잘 오셨습니다, 환영합니다
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: bi xêr bên, bi xêr bê
 * Sorani: به‌خێربێی, به‌خێربێن
 * Latin: salve!, salvete!
 * Latvian: laipni lūdzam!


 * Limburgish: wilkóm
 * Lithuanian: sveiki atvykę
 * Lojban: fi'i
 * Lule Sami:
 * Luxembourgish: wëllkëmm! Wëllkomm
 * Macedonian: добредојде! (dobrédojde!) (singular and informal), добредојдовте! (dobredójdovte!) (plural or formal)
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: സ്വാഗതം (svaagatham)
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: failt, failt royd
 * Maori: haere mai, nau mai
 * Marathi: स्वागत आहे (svāgat āhe)
 * Mi'kmaq: weltasualuleg
 * Mongolian: тавтай морилогтун (tavtai morilogtun)
 * Nahuatl: panoa (verb; singular: ximopanōlti; plural: ximopanōltih; literally, "do pass yourself/ves")
 * Navajo:
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Norfuk:
 * Northern Sami:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: benvengut
 * Ojibwe: aaniin, boozhoo
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Papiamentu: bon bini!
 * Persian: خوش آمدید
 * Polish: witaj!, witajcie! , witamy
 * Portuguese: bem-vindo!, bem-vinda! , bem-vindos! , bem-vindas!
 * Punjabi: ਜੀ ਆਇਆ ਨੂੰ (jī āiā nūng)
 * Romanian: bine ai venit!, bine aţi venit! , bun venit, bine ai venit
 * Russian: !
 * Sanskrit: स्वागतम
 * Sardinian: bene bennios
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàilte, ceud mìle fàilte
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: добродошли!
 * Roman: dobrodošli!
 * Sicilian: binvinutu
 * Sindhi: (bhalie karay aaya)
 * Sinhalese: ආයුබෝවන්
 * Slovak: vitajte
 * Slovene: dobrodošel!, dobrodošla! , dobrodošli!
 * Somali: soo dhowow
 * Southern Sami:
 * Spanish: ¡bienvenido!, ¡bienvenida! , bienvenidos
 * Sukuma: tuliho!
 * Swahili: karibu!
 * Swedish: välkommen!, välkomna
 * Tagalog: maligayang pagdating, Mabuhay
 * Tahitian: maeva, manava
 * Tatar: räxim itegez!
 * Telugu: స్వాగతం (svaagataM)
 * Thai: ยินดีต้อนรับ
 * Tigrinya: ገንዘብካ (genzebka = it is yours)
 * እንቋዕ ብደሐን መጻእካ (ənqwaˋ bdeHen meSaəka = wonderful that you have arrived safely)
 * እንቋዕ ብድሐን ጸናሕካ (ənqwaˋ bdeHen SenaHka = wonderful that you have stayed well [response to above])
 * Turkish:, hoşgeldiniz (formal)
 * Tz'utujil: utz epejtiik
 * Ukrainian: ласкаво просимо! (laskavo prosymo)
 * Urdu: خوش آمديد
 * Uyghur: (hoş kepsiz)
 * Uzbek: xush kelibsiz
 * Venetian: benvegnù, benvegnesto , benvegnùa , benvegnesta , benvegnùi , benvegnesti , benvegnùe , benvegneste
 * Vietnamese: xin chào, chào, hoan nghênh (歡迎), được tiếp đi ân cần
 * Volapük: vekömö!
 * Walloon: benvnuwe
 * Welsh: croeso!, croeso, croeso cynnes iawn
 * West Frisian: wolkom!
 * Woods Cree: ᑕᐋᐧᐤ (tawâw = come in, there's room)
 * Xhosa: wamkelekile, namkelekile
 * Yiddish: !װילקום (wilkum), ברוכים־הבאים (brukhim-haboim) , ברוך־הבא (borekh-habo)
 * Zulu: isibingelelo!, sawubona!, uwamkelekile


 * : menjuah-juah! horas!
 * : menjuah-juah! horas!
 * : menjuah-juah! horas!
 * : menjuah-juah! horas!


 * : menjuah-juah! horas!
 * : menjuah-juah! horas!
 * : menjuah-juah! horas!

Verb

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: приветствам (privétstvam)
 * Catalan: ser benvingut (inf.), digueu benvinguts! (interj.)
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, welkom heten
 * Esperanto: bonvenigi
 * Filipino: mabuhay
 * Finnish: toivottaa tervetulleeksi
 * French: accueillir, souhaiter la bienvenue
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido: bonvenigar
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: dar le benvenita a
 * Italian: accogliere, dare il benvenuto
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: (dordūul)


 * Korean:
 * Latin: alicuius adventu festum agere, alicuius adventu festum ago, adventu festum ago
 * Macedonian: пожелува добредојде, пречекува,  прима
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: dar as boas-vindas a
 * Romanian: întâmpina
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuir fàilte air
 * Slovene: izreči dobrodošlico
 * Spanish: dar la bienvenida (a)
 * Swedish: välkomna
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: chào (đến), hoan nghênh
 * Volapük: vekömön
 * Welsh: croesawu
 * West Frisian: ferwolkomje
 * !Xóõ: tàhʻa


 * American Sign Language:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, graag ontvangen
 * Finnish: toivottaa tervetulleeksi


 * Japanese: うれしく思う
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: välkomna

Adjective

 * American Sign Language:
 * Basque: ongi etorri
 * Bulgarian: желан, желана , желано , желани (želan, želana, želano, želani)
 * Catalan: benvingut, benvinguda
 * Dutch: welkom, welkome, graag gezien
 * Esperanto: bonvena
 * Filipino: mabuhay
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: szívesen látott, kellemes
 * Indonesian: dielu-elukan
 * Interlingua: benvenite
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 歓迎すべき
 * Latin:, , , , , volentes, volentes, volentia, volentia, , ,
 * Macedonian: добредојден
 * Polish: mile widziany
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: binevenit, binevenită
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: željan, željna, željni, željno, poželjan, poželjna, poželjni, poželjno
 * Slovene: dobrodošel, dobrodošla
 * Spanish: ,
 * Vietnamese: được hoan nghênh
 * Volapük: vekömik
 * Welsh: i'w groesawu, i'w chroesawu , i'w croesawu

Noun

 * American Sign Language:
 * Bulgarian: добре дошъл, добре дошла, добре дошла, добре дошли
 * Dutch: verwelkoming, ,
 * Finnish: tervetulotoivotus, tervehtiminen, vastaanotto
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: accoglienza


 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: добредојде,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàilte
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: acogida, bienvenida


 * American Sign Language:
 * Finnish: tervetulotoivotus
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:


 * Macedonian: добредојде
 * Polish: powitanie
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàilte
 * Slovene:
 * Urdu:


 * : dobrodošlica
 * : прием (priem)
 * : benvinguda
 * : dobrodošlica
 * : welkom
 * : bonveno
 * : móttökur
 * : benvenita


 * : boas-vindas
 * : urare de bunvenit
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: добродошлица
 * Roman: dobrodošlica, prijemnica , prijem , prijava
 * : bienvenida
 * : makaribisho (1), salamu, maamkizi (2)
 * : (istiqbâl),  (svāgat)
 * : sự chào, sự hoan nghênh (1), lời chào, lời hoan nghênh (2)
 * : veköm
 * : croeso

Derived terms

 * wear out one's welcome


 * welcome wagon


 * you're welcome