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Welcome   /wˈɛlkəm/   Listen
verb
Welcome  v. t.  (past & past part. welcomed; pres. part. welcoming)  To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor; to welcome a new idea. "I welcome you to land." "Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long."


adjective
Welcome  adj.  
1.
Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor. "When the glad soul is made Heaven's welcome guest."
2.
Producing gladness; grateful; as, a welcome present; welcome news. "O, welcome hour!"
3.
Free to have or enjoy gratuitously; as, you are welcome to the use of my library. Note: Welcome is used elliptically for you are welcome. "Welcome, great monarch, to your own."
Welcome-to-our-house (Bot.), a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Cyparissias).


noun
Welcome  n.  
1.
Salutation to a newcomer. "Welcome ever smiles."
2.
Kind reception of a guest or newcomer; as, we entered the house and found a ready welcome. "His warmest welcome at an inn." "Truth finds an entrance and a welcome too."
To bid welcome, to receive with professions of kindness. "To thee and thy company I bid A hearty welcome."





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"Welcome" Quotes from Famous Books



... during the day preceding he had taken a long walk across the mountains. The natural result followed. While he was waiting for Ben to fall asleep, he fell asleep himself. Ben was not long in ascertaining this welcome fact. A series of noises, not very musical, announced that Jack was asleep. He had a confirmed habit of snoring, to which, fortunately, his wife had become accustomed, so that it did ...
— The Young Explorer • Horatio Alger
... cried another. "The hero of a snow-bank, an adoption, a rescue! The staff is proud to welcome you back!" ...
— Divided Skates • Evelyn Raymond
... of how a fleet equipped by the King of Cyprus had been despatched against the province of Demetrios, and of how among the invaders were Perion of the Forest and his Free Companions. "Ey, yes, my porter has returned. I ride instantly for the coast to greet him with appropriate welcome. I pray heaven it is no sluggard or weakling that is ...
— Domnei • James Branch Cabell et al
... as she addressed herself to Miss Patty; "and you're welcome to take the poor gipsy's picture and to cross her hand with the shining silver while she reads the stars and picks you out a prince of a husband and twelve ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede
... better men they could easily have driven the English out, which is perhaps a good reason for not bestowing much pity on the Irish, but it is not a good reason for telling the Irish they ought not to hate England. No pity can be made welcome which is ostentatiously mingled with contempt. It is quite true, to our minds, that during the last fifty years England has supplied the Irish with a better government than the Irish could provide for themselves within ...
— Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 • Edwin Lawrence Godkin


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