Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who welcomes, or salutes or receives kindly a new-comer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who welcomes; one who salutes, or receives kindly, a newcomer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
welcomes people, especiallynewcomers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who greets
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Examples
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Our welcomer was a man in the prime of forty years; perhaps the finest specimen of his race, physically, that I have ever seen.
Hampton and its Students. By Two of its Teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Mary Frances 1874
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Even his official "welcomer," M. Henry Houssaye, did not assert that M. Charmes had ever written anything more important or less mortal than leaders and paragraphs in the _Journal des Débats_.
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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In each instance, I attended the Kiddush after-prayer collation where being a stranger made me fair game for every "greeter" or "welcomer."
Rabbi Charles Simon: The Next Wave Of Jewish Feminism: Engaging Jewish Men In Communal Life Rabbi Charles Simon 2011
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In each instance, I attended the Kiddush after-prayer collation where being a stranger made me fair game for every "greeter" or "welcomer."
Rabbi Charles Simon: The Next Wave Of Jewish Feminism: Engaging Jewish Men In Communal Life Rabbi Charles Simon 2011
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The features could not be discerned even when she stood directly before them, but the voice of their welcomer thrilled them both.
"The Golden Girl of Munan" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2009
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Leicester in this illness and trouble, for I know I am not too old nor too useless to be a welcomer sight to him than anybody else in my place would be.
Bleak House 2007
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You are sure you are welcome: and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are.
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“Faith, my good lord,” said his attendant, “I think fetters of gold are like no other fetters — they are ever the weightier the welcomer.”
Kenilworth 2004
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In tracing back our old track, I sent Corporal Graham to examine a part of the river channel likely to contain water, and the report of his pistol some time after in the woods, welcomer than sweetest music to our ears just then, guided us to the spot, where he had found a small pond containing enough for all our wants.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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And Friar John, the gladdest man in the world, never was man made welcomer, never was any more courteously and graciously received than Friar John.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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