Overview of verb receive

The verb receive has 13 senses

• receive, have -- (get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front")


• receive, get, find, obtain, incur -- (receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions")


• pick up, receive -- (register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal")


• experience, receive, have, get -- (go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling")


• receive, take in, invite -- (express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees")


• receive -- (accept as true or valid; "He received Christ")


• welcome, receive -- (bid welcome to; greet upon arrival)


• receive -- (convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals")


• meet, encounter, receive -- (experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition")


• receive -- (have or give a reception; "The lady is receiving Sunday morning")


• get, receive -- (receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison")


• receive -- (partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament)


• receive -- (regard favorably or with disapproval; "Her new collection of poems was not well received")

Overview of adj received

The adj received has 2 senses

• standard, received -- (conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers; "standard English" (American); "received standard English is sometimes called the King's English" (British))


• received -- (widely accepted as true or worthy; "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"- Economist)