WARM RECEPTION

  

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WARM RECEPTION

Specialty Definition: WARM RECEPTION

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Literature

Warm Reception (A). A hot opposition. Also, a hearty welcome.
"The Home Rule members are prepared to give the Coercion Bill a warm reception; Mr. Parnell's followers will oppose it tooth and nail."- Newspaper paragraph, May 19th, 1885. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: WARM RECEPTION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Defense

Parry, repel, propugn, put to flight; give a warm reception to; hold at bay, keep at bay, keep arm's length.

Sociality

Welcome, welcomeness; greeting; hearty welcome, hearty reception, warm reception; urbanity; (courtesy); familiarity.

Entertain; give a party; Noun: be at home, see one's friends, hang out, keep open house, do the honors; receive, receive with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception; n. to kill the fatted calf.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: WARM RECEPTION

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Movie/TV Titles

A Warm Reception (1917)

Captain Bill's Warm Reception (1914)

A Warm Reception in L.A. (1987)

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Photo Album: WARM RECEPTION

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Harry Howard's latest success The doctor's warm reception. Credit: Library of Congress.

Howard's sure cure for the blues in three prescriptions and 180 pleasant doses for direction see below : secure seats for The doctor's warm reception at the Opera House, office hours, 8-to-10:30 p.m. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Expressions: WARM RECEPTION

Expressions using "WARM RECEPTION": a warm reception give a warm reception give smb. a warm reception. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: WARM RECEPTION

Language Translations for "WARM RECEPTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

szívélyes fogadtatásra talál (to meet with a warm reception), szívélyes fogadtatásban részesül (to meet with a warm reception), szívélyes (complacent, complaisant, cordial, genial, good natured, good tempered, good-tempered, gracious, hearty, obliging, open armed, to meet with a warm reception, warm, warm-hearted, well disposed, wholehearted), fogadtatásra talál (to meet with a warm reception). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"待 (friendly reception), 温かい"迎 , 優遇 (favorable treatment, good treatment, hearty welcome, hospitality), 優待 (hospitality, preferential treatment, welcome). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

か"たい (armada, fleet, friendly reception, frigid zone, hospitality, laxity, negligence, warm welcome), あたたかいか"'い, ゆうたい (bowing out, corporeal, ethereal body, hospitality, mailbag, preferential treatment, retiring voluntarily, tangible, welcome), ゆうぐう (favorable treatment, good treatment, hearty welcome, hospitality). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

armway eceptionray

   

Romanian

  

face cuiva o primire cãlduroasã (give smb. a warm reception). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sıcak karşılama (a warm reception, hearty welcome, welcome), şiddetle karşılık verme (a warm reception). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: WARM RECEPTION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-m-n-o-p-r-r-t-w"

-1 letter: intercompare.

-2 letters: preromantic.

-3 letters: importance, permeation, recreation.

-4 letters: ametropic, carpenter, certainer, copartner, cremation, imperator, impotence, imprecate, intercrop, manticore, merocrine, peritonea, preatomic, precentor, pretorian, procreant, procreate, protamine, reception, repairmen, treponema, worriment.

-5 letters: airpower, airwomen, anoretic, anterior, antimere, aperient, apocrine, atropine, camporee, caponier, careworn, carotene, carrotin, centiare, coinmate, comparer, conepate, coparent, copemate, copremia, creamier, creatine, creation, cremator.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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