Receive meaning

What does “receive” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“receive” is a verb with 13 meanings. Its most common meaning is: get something; come into possession of.

receive

get something; come into possession of
“receive payment”
“receive a gift”
Synonymshave
receive a specified treatment (abstract)
“These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation”
“His movie received a good review”
Synonymsget find obtain incur
register (perceptual input)
“pick up a signal”
Synonymspick up
go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
“get an idea”
“experience vertigo”
Synonymsexperience have get
express willingness to have in one's home or environs
“The community warmly received the refugees”
Synonymstake in invite
accept as true or valid
“He received Christ”
bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
Synonymswelcome
convert into sounds or pictures
“receive the incoming radio signals”
experience as a reaction
“My proposal met with much opposition”
Synonymsmeet encounter
have or give a reception
“The lady is receiving Sunday morning”
receive as a retribution or punishment
“He got 5 years in prison”
Synonymsget
partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
regard favorably or with disapproval
“Her new collection of poems was not well received”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University