reception

See also: réception

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French reception, from Latin receptiō (“the act of receiving; reception”), from recipiō (“receive”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“I hold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃn̩/

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Noun

reception (countable and uncountable, plural receptions)

1. The act of receiving.
2. (uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

   We have poor TV reception in the valley.

   The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.

3. A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

   After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.

4. A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.

   The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.

   • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Former Tottenham star Rohan Ricketts came off the Rovers bench with 19 minutes to go to a warm reception from the home fans, six years after leaving the Lane.

5. The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
6. (UK, education) The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
7. (law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
   • 1942 October, Levy, Ernst, “Reflections on the First "Reception" of Roman Law in Germanic States”, in The American Historical Review, JSTOR 1843246, page 20:

     Among the numerous receptions of Roman law one event stood out, to the extent that, at least in central Europe, it almost monopolized the term.

8. (American football) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 2020 April 24, Ken Belson and Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in New York Time‎^[2]:

     Henderson can play multiple techniques, man and off, and over the last two seasons, he yielded just 20 receptions, on 44 targets, in single coverage on the boundary, according to Pro Football Focus, making him a prime candidate to start there as a rookie.

9. (linguistics) Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.

Synonyms

• (desk where guests are received): front desk

Derived terms

• reception center, reception centre
• reception desk
• receptionist
• reception room

Related terms

• receptacle
• receptive
• receptible
• receptor
• receive

Translations

act of receiving

• Arabic: اِسْتِقْبَال‎ m (istiqbāl)
• Armenian: ստացում (hy) (stacʿum)
• Bulgarian: получа́ване n (polučávane), прие́мане (bg) n (priémane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 接收 (zh) (jiēshōu)

• Czech: obdržení n, přijetí (cs) n
• Danish: modtagelse c
• Dutch: ontvangst (nl)
• Finnish: vastaanotto (fi)
• French: réception (fr) f
• Galician: recepción (gl) m
• Georgian: მიღება (miɣeba)
• German: Aufnahme (de) f, Empfang (de) m
• Hungarian: átvétel (hu), fogadás (hu)
• Italian: ricevimento (it) m
• Japanese: 受付 (ja) (うけつけ, uketsuke), (acceptance) 受理 (ja) (じゅり, juri), 収容 (ja) (しゅうよう, shūyō), (to a member of a group) 入会 (ja) (にゅうかい, nyūkai), 加入 (ja) (かにゅう, kanyū)

• Korean: 응접(應接) (eungjeop)
• Latin: receptiō f
• Malayalam: സ്വീകരണം (ml) (svīkaraṇaṃ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mottakelse m

• Polish: odbiór (pl) m
• Portuguese: recepção (pt) f
• Russian: приём (ru) m (prijóm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: prijem (sh), doček (sh)

• Slovene: sprejem m
• Spanish: recepción (es) m
• Swedish: mottagande (sv) n
• Welsh: derbyniad m

electronics: act or ability to receive signals

• Bulgarian: прие́мане (bg) n (priémane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 接收能力 (jiēshōu nénglì)

• Czech: příjem (cs) m
• Danish: modtagning c
• Dutch: ontvangst (nl)
• Finnish: vastaanotto (fi)
• French: réception (fr) f
• Galician: cobertura m
• Hungarian: vétel (hu), térerő (hu) (state of mobile phone reception)
• Irish: glacadh m
• Italian: ricezione (it) f
• Japanese: (act) 受信 (ja) (じゅしん, jushin), (ability) 感度 (かんど, kando)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mottak n

  Nynorsk: mottak n

• Polish: zasięg (pl) m
• Portuguese: recepção (pt) f
• Russian: приём (ru) m (prijóm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: prijem (sh)

• Spanish: cobertura (es) m
• Swedish: mottagning (sv) c
• Welsh: derbyniad m

social engagement

• Arabic: اِسْتِقْبَال‎ m (istiqbāl), حَفْلَة اِسْتِقْبَال‎ f (ḥaflat istiqbāl)
• Bengali: এস্তেকবাল (eśtekbal)
• Bulgarian: прие́м (bg) m (priém)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 招待會 (zh), 招待会 (zh) (zhāodàihuì)

• Czech: recepce (cs) f
• Danish: reception (da) c
• Dutch: receptie (nl) f
• Esperanto: akcepto
• Finnish: vastaanotto (fi)
• French: accueil (fr) m, réception (fr) f
• Galician: recepción (gl) m, convite m
• Georgian: მიღება (miɣeba)
• German: Empfang (de) m
• Greek: υποδοχή (el) f (ypodochí)

  Ancient: ὑποδοχή f (hupodokhḗ), δοχή f (dokhḗ)

• Hungarian: fogadás (hu)
• Italian: ricevimento (it) m
• Japanese: 接待 (ja) (せったい, settai), 宴会 (ja) (えんかい, enkai), (condition of the engagement) 待遇 (ja) (たいぐう, taigū), レセプション (resepushon)

• Korean: 환영회(歡迎會) (ko) (hwanyeonghoe), 리셉션 (risepsyeon)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پێشواز‎ (ku) (pêşwaz)

• Malayalam: റീസെപ്ഷൻ (ṟīsepṣaṉ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: resepsjon m, mottakelse m

  Nynorsk: resepsjon m

• Polish: przyjęcie (pl) n
• Portuguese: recepção (pt) f
• Russian: приём (ru) m (prijóm), банке́т (ru) m (bankét)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: prijem (sh), doček (sh)

• Spanish: recibimiento (es) m, recepción (es) m
• Swedish: mottagning (sv) c, reception (sv) c
• Tagalog: baysanan (wedding)
• Welsh: derbyniad m

reaction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反應 (zh), 反应 (zh) (fǎnyìng)

• Czech: přijetí (cs) n
• Danish: modtagelse c
• Dutch: ontvangst (nl)
• Finnish: vastaanotto (fi)
• Hungarian: fogadtatás (hu)

• Italian: accoglienza (it) f
• Japanese: 受け (うけ, uke), 反応 (ja) (はんのう, hannō), 評判 (ja) (ひょうばん, hyōban), 理解 (ja) (りかい, rikai)
• Malay: sambutan (ms)
• Portuguese: recepção (pt) f
• Russian: приём (ru) m (prijóm)
• Swedish: mottagande (sv) n

front desk

• Arabic: مَكْتَب الِاسْتِقْبَال‎ m (maktab al-istiqbāl)
• Armenian: ընդունարան (hy) (əndunaran)
• Belarusian: прыёмная f (pryjómnaja), рэгістрату́ра f (rehistratúra) (in a clinic)
• Bulgarian: реце́пция f (recépcija)
• Catalan: recepció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 接待處, 接待处 (jiēdàichù), 櫃檯 (zh), 柜台 (zh) (guìtái), 前臺 (zh), 前台 (zh) (qiántái), 接受處, 接受处 (jiēshòuchù)

• Czech: recepce (cs) f
• Danish: reception (da) c
• Dutch: receptie (nl) f
• Esperanto: akceptejo
• Estonian: vastuvõtt
• Finnish: vastaanotto (fi)
• French: réception (fr) f
• Galician: recepción (gl) m
• Georgian: რეცეპცია (receṗcia)
• German: Rezeption (de) f, Empfang (de) m
• Greek: υποδοχή (el) f (ypodochí), ρεσεψιόν (el) n (resepsión)
• Hungarian: recepció (hu)
• Irish: deasc fáiltithe f
• Italian: reception (it) f, ricezione (it) f

• Japanese: 受付 (ja) (うけつけ, uketsuke), レセプション (resepushon), フロント (ja) (furonto)
• Korean: 접수처(接受處) (jeopsucheo), 리셉션 (risepsyeon), 프런트 (peureonteu)
• Maori: taupaepae
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: resepsjon m

  Nynorsk: resepsjon m

• Persian: پذیرش‎ (fa) (pazireš)
• Polish: recepcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: recepção (pt) f
• Russian: приёмная (ru) f (prijómnaja), сто́йка администра́тора f (stójka administrátora), (in a clinic) регистрату́ра (ru) f (registratúra), ресе́пшен (ru) m (resɛ́pšen), реце́пция (ru) f (recépcija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: recepcija (sh) f

• Slovak: recepcia f
• Spanish: recepción (es) m
• Swedish: reception (sv) c, vakt (sv) c
• Turkish: resepsiyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: прийма́льня (uk) f (pryjmálʹnja), реєстрату́ра f (rejestratúra) (in a clinic)
• Vietnamese: phòng lễ tân, quầy lễ tân (vi)
• Welsh: derbynfa f

adoption of legal phenomena from a different culture

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: vastaanotto (fi)
• Russian: реце́пция (ru) f (recépcija)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: (1, 2, 4) ^{(please verify)} Empfang (de) m, ^{(please verify)} Aufnahme (de) f

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} mottak n

Anagrams

• pre-notice, prenotice

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French réception, English reception, from Latin receptio.

Noun

reception c

1. a reception, a front desk
2. a reception, a social welcoming event

Declension

Declension of reception
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	reception	receptionen	receptioner	receptionerna
Genitive	receptions	receptionens	receptioners	receptionernas

Synonyms

• intagning (i en orden)
• mottagning
• vakt