RECEPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reception mean? 

• RECEPTION (noun)
  The noun RECEPTION has 5 senses:

1. the manner in which something is greeted

2. a formal party of people; as after a wedding

3. quality or fidelity of a received broadcast

4. the act of receiving

5. (American football) the act of catching a pass in football

  Familiarity information: RECEPTION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECEPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The manner in which something is greeted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

reception; response

Context example:

she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors

Hypernyms ("reception" is a kind of...):

greeting; salutation ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))

Derivation:

receptionist (a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A formal party of people; as after a wedding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("reception" is a kind of...):

party (a group of people gathered together for pleasure)

Meronyms (parts of "reception"):

reception line (a line of people (hosts and guests of honor) who welcome the guests at a reception party)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reception"):

at home (a reception held in your own home)

levee (a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court))

tea (a reception or party at which tea is served)

wedding reception (a reception for wedding guests held after the wedding)

Derivation:

receive (have or give a reception)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Quality or fidelity of a received broadcast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("reception" is a kind of...):

broadcasting (taking part in a radio or tv program)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reception"):

detection; signal detection (the detection that a signal is being received)

demodulation ((electronics) the reception of a signal by extracting it from the carrier wave)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of receiving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

receipt; reception

Hypernyms ("reception" is a kind of...):

acquiring; getting (the act of acquiring something)

Derivation:

receive (get something; come into possession of)

receptionist (a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors)

Sense 5

Meaning:

(American football) the act of catching a pass in football

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line

Hypernyms ("reception" is a kind of...):

catch; grab; snap; snatch (the act of catching an object with the hands)

Domain category:

American football; American football game (a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays)

 Context examples 

He received the kindest welcome from her; and shyness, coldness, reserve could not stand against such a reception.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And with a low bow he left her to attack Mr. Darcy, whose reception of his advances she eagerly watched, and whose astonishment at being so addressed was very evident.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She was sure of a pleasant reception; and her friend seemed this morning particularly obliged to her for coming, seemed hardly to have expected her, though it had been an appointment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Let me have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the date of his supposed suicide.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In fact, said Mrs. Micawber, lowering her voice,—this is between ourselves—our reception was cool.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The time was coming when the news must spread farther, and other persons' reception of it tried.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Her reception of him was of a sort which he could not have hoped for, had he expected to see her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I expected this reception,” said the dæmon.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

If the stranger had any doubts about his reception, they were set at rest in a minute by the cordial welcome he received.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The cilia of the receptor cells protrude into the mucous layer where molecular reception with odors occurs and sensory transduction begins.

(Olfactory Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)