reception

noun9

1. •
   The act of receiving.
2. •
   A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

   • After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.
3. •
   the desk in a hotel or a company building where staff welcome guests and answer their questions

   • The reception of the hotel is on the second floor; exit the lift and turn right.
4. •
   The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

   • We have poor TV reception in the valley.
   • The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.
5. •
   The act of catching a pass.
6. •
   A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.

   • The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception.
7. •
   (UK) The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.
8. •
   Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.
9. •
   The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.

   • Among the numerous receptions of Roman law one event stood out, to the extent that, at least in central Europe, it almost monopolized the term. — 1942