Receive

Verb

 * 1) to get, to be given something while the other party is the active partner (opposite: to obtain).
 * She received a lot of presents for her birthday.
 * 1) to take possession of
 * 2) To act as a host for guests.
 * 3) To suffer from (an injury)
 * I received a bloody nose from the collision.
 * 1)  To detect a signal from a transmitter.
 * 2)  To be in a position to take possition, or hit back the ball.
 * 3)  To be in a position to hit back a service.
 * 4)  To be in a position to catch a forward pass
 * 5)  To accept into the mind; to understand.
 * 6) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.57:
 * I cannot receive that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.

Related terms

 * receivable
 * receiver
 * reception
 * receipt
 * receptive
 * receptacle
 * recipient

Adverbs for Receive
courteously; precisely; graciously; affably; reluctantly; hospitably; opportunely; glowingly; morosely; willingly; scornfully; consciously; mournfully; credulously; gratuitously; supinely; indiscriminately; haughtily; cordially; royally; ceremoniously; frostily.

Thesaurus
abide by, accede, accept, accept for gospel, accept implicitly, acclaim, acknowledge receipt of, acquiesce, acquiesce in, acquire, admit, agree, agree to, agree with, applaud, ascertain, assent, assimilate, assume, be certain, be paid, be subjected to, be told, bear, believe, believe without reservation, buy, catch up, cheer, claim, clap hands on, clasp, claw, clear, clench, clinch, clutch, collect, come by, come in for, come into, complete, comply, comprehend, comprise, consent, contain, count in, cover, credit, derive, derive from, drag down, drain off, draw, draw from, draw off, earn, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, endure, envisage, experience, fill, fill in, fill out, find out, gain, gather, get, get hold of, give an entree, give faith to, give the nod, glom on to, grab, grab hold of, grapple, grasp, greet, grip, gripe, gross, hail, have, have coming in, hear, hold, hold with, home on, hug, identify, immit, in toto, include, incorporate, inherit, intromit, lay hands on, lay hold of, learn, let in, loot, make, map, mark paid, meet, meet with, nail, net, nip, nip up, nod, nod assent, number among, obtain, occupy, palm, partake, pick up, pillage, pinpoint, pocket, possess, profit, pull down, put faith in, receipt, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, scan, secure, seize, set store by, snap up, snatch, spot, steal, subscribe to, suffer, sustain, swallow, sweep, take, take by assault, take by storm, take for granted, take hold of, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take kindly to, take on, take on faith, take on trust, take over, take possession, take stock in, take up, throw open to, trigger, trust, tune in, undergo, vote for, welcome, whip up, yes, yield assent

Etymology
From receiven: from  recever: from  recipere:, past participle receptus: from re-: + capere:; see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Replaced native terms in -fon/-fangen (eg. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from  -fōn), native  thiggen "to receive" (from  þicgan), and non-native  aquilen, enquilen "to receive" (from 🇫🇴 aquillir, encueillir).

Translations

 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic: (istáqbala), استلم
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: rebre
 * Chinese: 收到 (shōudào), 接到 (jiēdào)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ontvangen
 * Esperanto: ricevi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew: קיבל
 * Hungarian:


 * Interlingua: reciper
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 受け取る (うけとる, uketoru),　貰う　(もらう, morau), 受ける (うける, ukeru)
 * Korean: 받다 (batda)
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: prejeti
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: (istálama)
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: rebre
 * Chinese: 收 (shōu)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 受け取る (うけとる, uketoru)
 * Korean: 받다 (batda)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: ontvangen


 * Russian:


 * Catalan: rebre
 * Dutch: ontvangen


 * Hungarian: fog


 * : recevar