Usually means: Process of receiving or welcoming.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word reception:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. reception: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reception: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reception: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reception: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reception: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reception, reception: Wordnik
  7. reception: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reception: Wiktionary
  9. reception: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reception: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reception: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Reception, reception: Dictionary.com
  13. reception: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. reception: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Reception (American football), Reception (School), Reception (astrology), Reception (disambiguation), Reception (gridiron football), Reception (school), Reception, The Reception (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Reception: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reception: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reception: Rhymezone
  19. reception: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reception: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. reception: Free Dictionary
  22. reception: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. reception: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. reception: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reception: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Wedding Paper Divas Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reception: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See receptions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of receiving.
noun:  (uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.
noun:  A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.
noun:  A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.
noun:  The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.
noun:  (UK, education) The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
noun:  (law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.
noun:  (American football) The act of catching a pass.
noun:  (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.

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