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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.  Antonym: say farewell.
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"  Antonym: unwelcome.
noun
1.
The state of being welcome.
2.
A greeting or reception.



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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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