Reception

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.
 * 5) The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.

Adjectives for Reception
unfriendly; sumptuous; canine; nattering popular; suitable; favorable; enthusiastic affectionate; honorable; courteous; critical problematical; ceremonious; unprejudiced instant; general; cordial; wonderful; traditional; frostygrand; stormy; official; magnificent; bloody; court; extraordinary; welcome; royal; friendly; sympathetic; hospitable; tame; sullen.

Thesaurus
entrance, entree, entry, envisagement, exhaustiveness, fade-out, fading, faith, festivity, fete, forgathering, forum, function, gathering, get-together, getting, greeting, hearty welcome, hope, housewarming, hug, import, importation, importing, inclusion, inclusiveness, income, incoming, incorporation, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, input, insertion, insinuation, intake, interference, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, leakage, levee, matinee, meet, meeting, membership, noise, open arms, opening, openness, panel, participation, party, penetration, percolation, plenum, possession, preview, prom, quorum, rally, reaction, receipt, receival, receiving, reliance, reliance on, rendezvous, response, reunion, salon, seance, seepage, session, shindig, sit-in, sitting, smiling reception, sociable, social, social affair, social gathering, soiree, static, stock, store, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, symposium, synod, taking, taking away, taking possession, the glad hand, theft, tolerance, toleration, treatment, trust, turnout, vernissage, wake, welcome, welcome mat, welcoming, whole, acceptance, acceptation, acception, access, accueil, acquiescence, acquisition, admissibility, admission, admittance, affair, assemblee, assembly, assignation, assimilation, assumption, assurance, assuredness, at home, atmospherics, ball, belief, blaring, blasting, blind spot, brawl, caucus, certainty, claiming, colloquium, commission, committee, completeness, comprehension, comprehensiveness, comprisal, conclave, concourse, confidence, congregation, congress, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, coverage, crawling, credence, credit, credulity, creeping, dance, date, dependence, derivation, diet, do, drift, eisteddfod, eligibility, embodiment, embrace, embracement, encompassment,

Etymology
From receptio:, from recipio:, from re-: + capio:.

Synonyms

 * front desk

Derived terms

 * receptionist
 * reception desk
 * reception room

Related terms

 * receptacle
 * receptive
 * receptible
 * receptor
 * receive

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 接收
 * Czech: obdržení, přijetí
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მიღება
 * Hungarian: átvétel
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 受付; 受理; 収容;  ,
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: mottakelse
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 接收能力
 * Czech: příjem
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian: vétel
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 受信;  感度
 * Norwegian: mottak
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: mottagning


 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 招待會, 招待会
 * Czech: recepce
 * Dutch: receptie
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მიღება
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 接待, ; 待遇
 * Korean: 환영회 (hwanyeonghoe)
 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian: mottakelse
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian: ,
 * Spanish: recibimiento ,
 * Swedish: mottagning, reception


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 反應, 反应
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: fogadtatás


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 受け,, 評判,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 接待處, 接待处, 櫃檯, 柜台, 前臺, 前台
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: recepció
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 受付
 * Norwegian: resepsjon
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: приёмная (prijómnaja), стойка администратора (stójka administrátora)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, vakt

Anagrams

 * creep into

Noun

 * 1) a reception, a front desk
 * 2) a reception, a social welcoming event

Synonyms

 * intagning (i en orden)
 * mottagning
 * vakt