welcome

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Received with pleasure and hospitality into one's company or home: a welcome guest.
2. adj. Giving pleasure or satisfaction; agreeable or gratifying: a welcome respite from hard work.
3. adj. Cordially or willingly permitted or invited: You are welcome to join us.
4. adj. Used in the expression you're welcome to acknowledge an expression of gratitude.
5. n. A cordial greeting or hospitable reception given to an arriving person.
6. n. A reception upon arrival: gave the stranger an unfriendly welcome.
7. n. The state of being welcome: Don't overstay your welcome.
8. v. To greet, receive, or entertain (another or others) cordially or hospitably.
9. v. To receive or accept gladly: would welcome a little privacy.
10. interj. Used to greet cordially a visitor or recent arrival.
11. idiom. wear out (one's) welcome To visit so often or stay so long as to become a nuisance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Gladly received for intercourse or entertainment; esteemed as one whose coming or presence is agreeable; held as doing well to come: as, a welcome guest or visitor; you are always welcome here; to make a visitor feel welcome. Some times used elliptically as a word of greeting to a comer or comers: as, welcome home; bid our friends welcome.
2. Conferring gladness on receipt or presentation; such that its perception or acquisition gives pleasure; gladly received into knowledge or possession: as, welcome news; a welcome relief.
3. Gladly or willingly permitted, privileged, or the like; free to have, enjoy, etc.: as, you are welcome to do as you please; he is welcome to the money, or to all his honors.
4. Synonyms and
5. Acceptable, agreeable, gratifying, pleasant.
6. To greet the coming of with pleasure; salute with a welcome; receive gladly or joyfully: as, to welcome a friend, or the break of day.
7. n. The act of bidding or making welcome; a kindly greeting to one coming.
8. n. Kind or hospitable reception of a guest or new-comer.

Wiktionary

1. interj. Greeting given upon someone’s arrival.
2. v. to affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".
3. v. to accept something willingly or gladly.
4. adj. Whose arrival is a cause of joy.
5. n. The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.
6. n. The utterance of such a greeting.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.
2. adj. Producing gladness; grateful.
3. adj. Free to have or enjoy gratuitously.
4. n. Salutation to a newcomer.
5. n. Kind reception of a guest or newcomer.
6. v. To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the state of being welcome
2. n. a greeting or reception
3. v. bid welcome to; greet upon arrival
4. adj. giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted
5. v. accept gladly
6. v. receive someone, as into one's house