receive meaning and definition

RECEIVE verb

Definition of receive (verb)

1. get something; come into possession of
   • "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front"
   • synonyms: have
2. receive a specified treatment (abstract)
   • "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"
   • synonyms: find, get, incur, obtain
3. register (perceptual input)
   • "pick up a signal"
   • synonyms: pick up
4. go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
   • "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
   • synonyms: experience, get, have
5. express willingness to have in one's home or environs
   • "The community warmly received the refugees"
   • synonyms: invite, take in
6. accept as true or valid
   • "He received Christ"
7. bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
   • synonyms: welcome
   • antonym: say farewell
8. convert into sounds or pictures
   • "receive the incoming radio signals"
9. experience as a reaction
   • "My proposal met with much opposition"
   • synonyms: encounter, meet
10. have or give a reception
    • "The lady is receiving Sunday morning"
11. receive as a retribution or punishment
    • "He got 5 years in prison"
    • synonyms: get
12. partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
13. regard favorably or with disapproval
    • "Her new collection of poems was not well received"