verb
- Get something; come into possession of.
- usage: "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"
- Receive a specified treatment (abstract. )
- usage: "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
- Register (perceptual input. )
- usage: "pick up a signal"
- Go through (mental or physical states or experiences. )
- usage: "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
- synonyms: experience, receive, have, get
- Express willingness to have in one's home or environs.
- usage: "The community warmly received the refugees"
- Accept as true or valid.
- usage: "He received Christ"
- synonyms: receive
- Bid welcome to; greet upon arrival.
- Convert into sounds or pictures.
- usage: "receive the incoming radio signals"
- synonyms: receive
- Experience as a reaction.
- usage: "My proposal met with much opposition"
- Have or give a reception.
- usage: "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"
- synonyms: receive
- Receive as a retribution or punishment.
- usage: "He got 5 years in prison"
- Partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament.
- synonyms: receive
- Regard favorably or with disapproval.
- usage: "Her new collection of poems was not well received"
- synonyms: receive
adjective
- Conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers) "standard English" (American); "received standard English is sometimes called the King's English" (British.
- synonyms: standard
- Widely accepted as true or worthy. "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise- Economist
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