The state of being welcome.

Roget 292: arrival, advent; landing; debarkation, disembarkation; reception, welcome, vin d'honneur [Fr.].    home, goal, goalpost; landing place, landing stage; bunder^†; resting place; destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport; terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal; journey's end; anchorage etc. (refuge) 666.    return, remigration^†; meeting; rencounter^†, encounter.    completion etc. 729.    recursion [Comp.].    ... show more

Roget 892: sociality, sociability, sociableness etc. adj.; social intercourse; consociation^†; intercourse, intercommunity^†; consortship^†, companionship, comradeship; clubbism^†; esprit de corps.    conviviality; good fellowship, good company; joviality, jollity, savoir vivre [Fr.], festivity, festive board, merrymaking; loving cup^†; hospitality, heartiness; cheer.    welcome, welcomeness; greeting; hearty welcome, hearty reception, warm reception; urbanity etc. (courtesy) 894; familiarity.    good fellow, jolly fellow; bon enfant [Fr.], bawcock^†.    social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company.    social gathering, social reunion; assembly etc. (assemblage) 72; barbecue [U.S.], bee; corn-husking [U.S.], corn-shucking [U.S.]; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee [U.S.]; infare^†.    party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione [It], soiree, matin_ee; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carr_ee [Fr.], dish of tea, ridotto^†, rout^†; housewarming; ball, festival &c.; smoker, smoker-party; sociable [U.S.], stag party, hen party, tamasha^†; tea-party, tea-fight [Slang].    (amusement) 840; the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope]. birthday party [parties for specific occasions], Christmas party, New Year's Eve party, Thanksgiving Day Dinner; bonenkai [Jap.]; wedding reception.    visiting; round of visits; call, morning call; interview etc. (conversation) 588; assignation; tryst, trysting place; appointment.    club etc. (association) 712.    ... show more

Roget 894: courtesy; respect etc. 928; good manners, good behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness etc. adj.; bienseance, urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility, civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor; amiability, easy temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension etc. (humility) 879; affability, complaisance, pr_evenance, amability^†, gallantry; pink of politeness, pink of courtesy.    compliment; fair words, soft words, sweet words; honeyed phrases, ceremonial salutation, reception, presentation, introduction, accueil^†, greeting, recognition; welcome, abord^†, respects, devoir, regards, remembrances; kind regards, kind remembrances; love, best love, duty; empty encomium, flattering remark, hollow commendation; salaams.    obeisance etc. (reverence) 928; bow, courtesy, curtsy, scrape, salaam, kotow^†, kowtow, bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection etc. (worship) 990; obsequiousness etc. 886; capping, shaking hands, etc. v.; grip of the hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving cup, vin d'honneur [Fr.], pledge; love token etc. (endearment) 902; kiss, buss, salute.    mark of recognition, nod; nods and becks and wreathed smiles" [Milton]; valediction etc. 293; condolence etc. 915.    ... show more

Dutch: verwelkomen

A greeting or reception.

Dutch: begroeting, onthaal, ontvangst, verwelkoming, welkom
Polish: powitanie

Accept gladly.

Bid welcome to; greet upon arrival.

synonym: receive.

Roget 892: be sociable etc. adj.; know; be acquainted etc. adj.; associate with, sort with, keep company with, walk hand in hand with; eat off the same trencher, club together, consort, bear one company, join; make acquaintance with etc. (friendship) 888; make advances, fraternize, embrace.    be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out [U.S.].    visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters.    entertain; give a party etc. n.; be at home, see one's friends, hang out, keep open house, do the honors; receive, receive with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception etc. n.. to kill the fatted calf.    ... show more

Roget 894: be courteous etc. adj.; show courtesy etc. n.. mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be all things to all men, conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part; make the amiable, do the amiable; look as if butter would not melt in one's look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth; mend one's manners.    receive, do the honors, usher, greet, hail, bid welcome; welcome, welcome with open arms; shake hands; hold out the hand, press the hand, squeeze the hand, press the flesh; bid Godspeed; speed the parting guest; cheer, serenade.    salute; embrace etc. (endearment) 902; kiss, kiss hands; drink to, pledge, hob and nob^†; move to, nod to; smile upon.    uncover, cap; touch the hat, take off the hat; doff the cap; present arms; make way for; bow; make one's bow, make a leg; scrape, curtsy, courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee.    visit, wait upon, present oneself, pay one's respects, pay a visit etc. (sociability) 892; dance attendance on etc. (servility) 886; pay attentions to; do homage to etc. (respect) 928.    prostrate oneself etc. (worship) 990.    give one's duty to, send one's duty to, etc. n.. render polite etc. adj.; polish, civilize, humanize.    ... show more

Dutch: begroeten

Receive someone, as into one's house.

Dutch: inhalen, onthalen, ontvangen, opvangen, recipiëren, verwelkomen

Giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted.

Roget 829: causing pleasure etc. v.; laetificant^†; pleasure-giving, pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef^†, lief, acceptable; welcome, welcome as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite; to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking; satisfactory etc. (good) 648.    refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet, delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious etc. 396; palatable etc. 394; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual etc. 377.    [of people] attractive etc. 615; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing etc. (exciting) 824; cheering etc. 836; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing, enravishing^†.    charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely etc. (beautiful) 845; ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic^†; beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian etc. (heavenly) 981.    palmy, halcyon, Saturnian.    ... show more

Roget 888: friendly; amicable, amical^†; well-affected, unhostile^†, neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm-hearted.    friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with; on good terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing; on speaking terms, on visiting terms; in one's good graces, in one's good books.    acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy; welcome.    ... show more

Roget 892: sociable, companionable, clubbable, conversable^†, cosy, cosey^†, chatty, conversational; homiletical.    convivial; festive, festal; jovial, jolly, hospitable.    welcome, welcome as the roses in May; f=eted, entertained.    free and easy, hall fellow well met, familiar, on visiting terms, acquainted.    social, neighborly; international; gregarious.    ... show more