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Received   /rəsˈivd/  /rɪsˈivd/  /risˈivd/   Listen
Received

adjective
1.
Conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers.  Synonym: standard.  "Received standard English is sometimes called the King's English"  Antonym: nonstandard.
2.
Widely accepted as true or worthy.  "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"


Receive

verb
(past & past part. received; pres. part. receiving)
1.
Get something; come into possession of.  Synonym: have.  "Receive a gift" , "Receive letters from the front"
2.
Receive a specified treatment (abstract).  Synonyms: find, get, incur, obtain.  "His movie received a good review" , "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
3.
Register (perceptual input).  Synonym: pick up.
4.
Go through (mental or physical states or experiences).  Synonyms: experience, get, have.  "Experience vertigo" , "Get nauseous" , "Receive injuries" , "Have a feeling"
5.
Express willingness to have in one's home or environs.  Synonyms: invite, take in.
6.
Accept as true or valid.
7.
Bid welcome to; greet upon arrival.  Synonym: welcome.  Antonym: say farewell.
8.
Convert into sounds or pictures.
9.
Experience as a reaction.  Synonyms: encounter, meet.
10.
Have or give a reception.
11.
Receive as a retribution or punishment.  Synonym: get.
12.
Partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament.
13.
Regard favorably or with disapproval.



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"Received" Quotes from Famous Books



... concerned with the said Wood in relation to his said patent; And that we never were possessed of any of the said halfpence or farthings, except one halfpence and one farthing, which I the said John Molyneux received in a post-letter, and which I immediately afterwards delivered to one ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. VI; The Drapier's Letters • Jonathan Swift
... I was received by the housekeeper, a little, prim, benevolent old lady, with colourless face and antique head-dress, who led me to the room prepared for me. To my surprise, I found a large wood-fire burning on the hearth; but the ...
— The Portent & Other Stories • George MacDonald
... hogsheads, and even hencoops, to reach the shore; but out of four hundred and seventy-two persons who a few days before had left the coast of Holland, not more than eighteen escaped the raging billows. The miserable remnant received generous attention from the inhabitants of the place, who did all in their power to aid ...
— Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean • Marmaduke Park
... was the first man to reach the entrenchment, and, passing through an embrasure, received a bayonet thrust in the left breast, which stretched him on the ground. The men followed, clearing everything before them, capturing the four guns in the serai, bayoneting the rebels and firing at those who had taken to flight at our approach. Then, changing front, the ...
— A Narrative Of The Siege Of Delhi - With An Account Of The Mutiny At Ferozepore In 1857 • Charles John Griffiths
... of presents ready for use and, whenever he received a telephone message from his man, he hastened to the City Hall with a ring or a watch or a piece of silver and handed it to the bride with his congratulations. As a consequence, when Divver got the news and went to the home of the couple with his ...
— Plunkitt of Tammany Hall • George Washington Plunkitt


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