Meaning of reception in English

reception

noun

/rɪˈsep.ʃən/ us

/rɪˈsep.ʃən/

reception noun (WELCOME)

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B2 [ C ]

a formal party at which important people are welcomed:

The president gave a reception for the visiting heads of state.

C1 [ S ]

the way in which people react to something or someone:

Her first book got a wonderful/warm/frosty reception from the critics.

[ U ]

the act of welcoming someone or something:

The new hospital was ready for the reception of its first patients.

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receive (WELCOME)

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I went to see the sales manager but got a rather chilly reception.
The president had a hostile reception in Ohio this morning.
She was buoyed (up) by the warm reception her audience gave her.
Which firm will be catering at the wedding reception?
Soft drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served during the reception and a cash bar will be available.

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Celebrations, parties & special occasions

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Reacting and responding

Welcoming, greeting & greetings

reception noun (WELCOME)

B1 [ U ]

the place in a hotel or office building where people go when they first arrive:

Ask for me at reception.

I signed in at the reception desk.

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Please would you check in at the reception desk and sign your name in the book.
We would like to remind all our guests to leave their keys at reception before they depart.
New security measures require all visitors to sign in at reception and wear a visitor's badge.
Upon your arrival, please report to the reception desk.
New security measures require all visitors to sign in at reception and wear a visitor's badge.

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Parts of buildings: passages & entrance areas

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Hotels & hostels

reception noun (SIGNALS)

[ U ]

the degree to which mobile phone, radio, or television signals are strong and clear:

The phone reception is really bad out here in the woods.

We live on top of a hill and so we get excellent radio reception.

A new digital antenna might improve your reception.

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receive (GET)

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Broadcasting: radio

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Broadcasting: television

reception noun (SCHOOL)

[ U ] UK

the first year of infant school:

a reception class/teacher

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Schools in general

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Classes & courses

(Definition of reception from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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reception

noun

/rɪˈsep·ʃən/

reception noun (WELCOME)

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[ C ]

the way in which people react to something or someone:

The proposed jail has received a cool/lukewarm reception from local residents.

American musicians found a warm reception in Europe in the 1960s.

[ C ]

A reception is also a formal party:

a cocktail/wedding reception

reception noun (RADIO/TELEVISION)

[ U ]

the degree to which radio or television sounds and pictures are clear:

We get poor reception around here.

(Definition of reception from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

reception | Business English

reception

noun

/rɪˈsepʃən/ us

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[ U ] WORKPLACE

a place inside a hotel or office building where visitors go when they first arrive:

Let's meet in reception.

Posters will be on display in the reception area.

Collect your welcome packs from the reception desk.

We need more staff working on reception.

[ C ]

a formal party to welcome someone or to celebrate something:

The mayor offered to host a reception for the delegates.

The product will be launched at a champagne reception.

[ C ]

the way in which people react to a new idea, product, or person:

a warm/cool reception

The firm's expansion in Africa is expected to meet with a mixed reception.

The latest marketing plan got a frosty reception from the Board.

[ U ] COMMUNICATIONS

the quality of sound and pictures on a radio, television, mobile phone, etc. when it is used in a particular place:

I won't be able to call you, as reception is really bad in rural areas.

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Examples of reception

reception

She just yelled through the open door that separated the reception area from his office.

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The questions raised by medieval music reception reach to musicological fields outside medieval studies, but especially ethnomusicology and popular music studies.

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The frame is related to the presentation but also to the reception of theatre.

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Its grandiose accompaniment, unison melody, strong martial rhythms and the thrust of its dramatic function were sufficient to guarantee such a reception.

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Each reed pod2 contains a collection of electronics for either the gathering of weather information or the reception and dispersion of sound.

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These studies have shown that medieval music is filtered through its various receptions, and in fact exists in these receptions.

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Despite the mixed critical reception given the work as a whole, most observers understood how poorly the score had been played.

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If this is the case, their differential novelty cannot fully account for the quite different reception of the two major parts of the monograph.

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The reception of the pieces, however, does seem to split somewhat down cultural lines.

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The initial positive reception of this 'zero contribution' inference was followed by a large critical literature.

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The recent history of music scholarship provides a large part of the context for the reception of the volumes under consideration here.

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Emphasis on sensory reception also characterizes post-political theatre, which confirms its rejection of consistency and of any wellargued discourse about the state of the world.

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The argument follows from a fundamental premise: to understand the development and reception of forms of subjectivity requires an awareness of their highly contested nature.

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This distinguishes between centre and periphery with the curvilinear volume featuring as centre and the outer exhibition spaces and ticket reception forming a peripheral zone.

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It is not so much the authentic past of items that is of interest to purists as it is the reception in a present.

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Collocations with reception

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critical reception

Their personal attitude towards politics did not necessarily influence the critical reception of their works.

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enthusiastic reception

It is not an enthusiastic reception.

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favourable reception

Moreover, the government implemented new taxes that did not have a favourable reception among certain entrepreneurs.

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Meaning of reception in English

reception noun (WELCOME)

reception noun (WELCOME)

reception noun (SIGNALS)

reception noun (SCHOOL)

reception | American Dictionary

reception noun (WELCOME)

reception noun (RADIO/TELEVISION)

reception | Business English

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