Received with pleasure and hospitality into one's company or home, Cordially or willingly permitted or invited, Used in the expression you're welcome to acknowledge an expression of gratitude, noun_ A cordial greeting or hospitable reception given to an arriving person, The state of being welcome, The act of greeting someone?s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception, verb_ to accept something willingly or gladly, accept gladly, receive someone, as into one's house, transitive verb_ To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully, To receive or accept gladly, To greet, receive, or entertain (another or others) cordially or hospitably, interjection_ Greeting given upon someone?s arrival
the manner in which something is greeted, The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received, A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone
One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good, A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy, the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled, verb_ be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes, intend with some possibility of fulfilment, transitive verb_ To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of, obsolete To expect; to fear, intransitive verb_ To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; -- usually followed by for, To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in