reception

Meaning

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• front desk

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French reception, from Latin receptiō ("the act of receiving; reception"), from recipiō, from re- + capiō.