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| Main Entry: | reception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acceptance; acknowledgment |
| Synonyms: | accession, acquisition, admission, disposition, encounter, gathering, greeting, induction, introduction, meeting, reaction, receipt, receiving, recognition, response, salutation, treatment, welcome, recipience |
| Antonyms: | disacknowledgment |
| Main Entry: | reception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebratory party |
| Synonyms: | buffet, dinner, do*, entertainment, function, gathering, levee, matinee, tea, soiree, supper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale; let in, take in, suck in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink (food) [more].
-adjectives
admitting, admitted; admissable; absorbent.
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| Antonyms: | ejection (Motion out of)] |
| Main Entry: | admittance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | permission to enter |
| Synonyms: | access, entrée, entrance, entry, ingress, pass, passage, reception |
| Notes: | admission implies a physical entrance, whereas admittance implies some sort of procedural or merely formal entry; admission correlates with permission to move into a room or building but admittance correlates with acceptance into a group or organization |
| Main Entry: | banquet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal dinner, usually ceremonial |
| Synonyms: | feast, festivity, fete, meal, reception, regale, repast, spread, treat |
| Main Entry: | coming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrival |
| Synonyms: | accession, advent, approach, landing, reception |
| Antonyms: | departure, exit, departing, going, leaving |
| Main Entry: | enrollment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | registration for membership |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accession, admission, conscription, engagement, enlistment, entrance, entry, induction, influx, matriculation, rally, reception, record, response, subscription, listing, recruitment, student body, students |
| Main Entry: | foyer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | receiving area |
| Synonyms: | lobby, reception, vestibule, antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall |
| Main Entry: | greeting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | welcome; message of kindness |
| Synonyms: | accosting, acknowledgment, address, aloha*, attention, best wishes, blow*, card*, ciao, compellation, compliments, good wishes, hail, hello, heralding, hi, high five, highball, how-do-you-do, howdy, letter*, nod, note, notice, ovation, reception, regards, respects, rumble, salaam*, salutation, salute, speaking to, testimonial, ushering in, what's happening |
| Antonyms: | farewell, goodbye |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hospitality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | neighborliness |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, cheer, companionship, consideration, conviviality, cordiality, entertainment, friendliness, generosity, geniality, reception, warmth, welcome, affability, amiability, comradeship, good cheer, heartiness, hospitableness, obligingness, sociability |
| Antonyms: | hostility, inhospitality, unfriendliness, unneighborliness, unsociableness |
| Main Entry: | lounge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | club, socializing place |
| Synonyms: | bar, barroom, cocktail lounge, dive*, hideaway, lobby, mezzanine, parlor, pub, reception, saloon, spot, tap, taproom, club room, drinkery, watering hole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parlor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sitting room |
| Synonyms: | drawing room, front room, living room, lounge, reception, salon, waiting room, guest room |
| Main Entry: | presentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | performance; something given, displayed |
| Synonyms: | act, appearance, arrangement, award, debut, delivery, demonstration, display, dog and pony show*, donation, exhibition, exposition, giving, introduction, launch, offering, overture, pitch, present, production, proposal, proposition, reception, remembrance, rendition, representation, show, submission, bestowal, coming out, conferral, delivering, investiture, knockdown*, launching, sales pitch, staging |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shindig |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | party |
| Synonyms: | affair, ball, banquet, barbecue, bash*, blowout*, celebration, dance, dinner, feast, festivity, function, gala, get-together, reception, shindy, social gathering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | welcome |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greeting |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, entertainment, entrée, friendliness, hello, hospitality, ovation, reception, red carpet*, rumble*, salutation, salute, tumble*, handshake, howdy, key to the city |
| Antonyms: | goodbye |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ticker-tape parade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | parade for hero |
| Synonyms: | hero's welcome, reception, red-carpet treatment |
| Main Entry: | absorption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assimilation, incorporation |
| Synonyms: | consumption, digestion, exhaustion, fusion, intake, osmosis, penetration, reception, retention, saturation, drinking in, imbibing, impregnation, ingestion, inhalation, soaking up, suction, taking in |
| Main Entry: | acceptance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, taking |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, approval, assent, compliance, consent, cooperation, getting, go-ahead*, green light*, nod*, okay, permission, receipt, receiving, reception, recognition, securing, undertaking, yes, accepting, acquiring, gaining, obtaining, taking on |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissent, refusal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | admission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entering or allowing entry |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, access, admittance, confirmation, designation, door, entrance, entree, ingress, initiation, introduction, permission, reception, recognition, way, welcome, certification |
| Antonyms: | denial, exclusion, expulsion, refusal |
| Main Entry: | ball |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dance party |
| Synonyms: | hop, jump, mingle, prom, promenade, reception, shindig, hoedown, hoodang |
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