receive definition

1. get something; come into possession of
• examples: receive payment
• examples: receive a gift
• examples: receive letters from the front
2. receive a specified treatment (abstract)
• examples: These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation
• examples: His movie received a good review
• examples: I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions
3. express willingness to have in one's home or environs
• examples: The community warmly received the refugees
4. accept as true or valid
• examples: He received Christ
5. convert into sounds or pictures
• examples: receive the incoming radio signals
6. have or give a reception
• examples: The lady is receiving Sunday morning
7. partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament
8. regard favorably or with disapproval
• examples: Her new collection of poems was not well received