reception
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reception/rɪˈsepʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the action or process of receiving someone or something.
■ the way in which something is received.
■ the quality with which broadcast signals are received.
- 2 a formal social occasion held to welcome someone or celebrate an event.
- 3 chiefly Brit. the area in a hotel, office, etc. where visitors are greeted.
- 4 Brit. the first class in an infant school.
'reception' also found in these Oxford entries:
assumption
- blind spot
- compander
- durbar
- front desk
- hospitality
- levee
- radio
- reception order
- reception room
- salon
- stereopsis
- stray
- superheterodyne
- thermionic valve
- two-up two-down
- wedding cake
