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Welcome   /wˈɛlkəm/   Listen
Welcome

verb
(past & past part. welcomed; pres. part. welcoming)
1.
Accept gladly.
2.
Bid welcome to; greet upon arrival.  Synonym: receive.
3.
Receive someone, as into one's house.
adjective
1.
Giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted.  "A welcome guest" , "Made the children feel welcome" , "You are welcome to join us"
noun
1.
The state of being welcome.
2.
A greeting or reception.



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"Welcome" Quotes from Famous Books



... into a particular room, purposely fitted and prepared for the men; they were guided thither through a porch, in which Anacharsis sat, and there was a certain young lady with him combing his hair. This lady stepping forward to welcome Thales, he kissed her most courteously, and smiling said: Madam, make our host fair and pleasant, so that, being (as he is) the mildest man in the world, he may not be fearful and terrible for us to look on. When I was curious to ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch
... my good friend," said the Doctor, handing it back; "I won't take a cent. You are ten thousand times welcome to anything I have done. I feel myself richly remunerated in the satisfaction ...
— Doctor Jones' Picnic • S. E. Chapman
... of this wretched war, which has been foolishly called the second war of independence, came four months afterward. Never was a peace so welcome as this was on all sides. England was exhausted with the long contest with Napoleon; and now, that being over, as there was no practical question to differ about with the United States, the ministry were not unwilling to listen to the demands of the commercial and manufacturing ...
— James Madison • Sydney Howard Gay
... zigzags between the thick-set pine-trees under rocks with angular faces. All this corner of the forest has a sort of choked-up look—a rather wild and solitary aspect. One thinks of hermits in connection with it—companions of huge stags with fiery crosses between their horns, who were wont to welcome with paternal smiles the good kings of France when they knelt before their grottoes. The warm air was filled with a resinous odour, and roots of trees crossed one another like veins close to the soil. Rosanette slipped ...
— Sentimental Education, Volume II - The History of a Young Man • Gustave Flaubert
... eating and drinking, and did not reappear for several months, when he received the same kindly welcome, again disappearing. A few months afterwards he ...
— Welsh Fairy-Tales And Other Stories • Edited by P. H. Emerson


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