Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. hospitable, accessible and cordial.
- v. present participle of welcome.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. very cordial
Examples
“She stood before him, blond and beautiful, smelling of flowery old-fashioned perfume, her expression welcoming.”
“As a more down-to-earth option, Ms. Wilder recommended the Dar Khmissa, a riad, a house with an interior garden, in the Medina, the old city, which she called "welcoming and affordable" www.dar-khmissa-marrakech.com; rates from around $60.”
“The guards moved him to Abu Salim prison on May 14, where three guards beat him - in what he called a "welcoming reception" - using electric wire and metal pipes before depositing him in a 6-by-8-foot cell with four to five others.”
“EKU, which she described as a welcoming and nurturing environment, "played a major role in the development of my outlook," she said.”
“Joining the Brotherhood in welcoming international monitoring are the Ghad Party, the Democratic Front Party, some non-partisan opposition movements such as the National Association for Change, and all of the nongovernmental organizations engaged in the domestic monitoring process, such as the Egyptian Alliance for Monitoring the People's Assembly Elections (an umbrella organization of some 120 NGOs).”
The Huffington Post: Amr Hamzawy: Does Egypt Need International Election Observers?
“The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America has recently made great strides in welcoming gay clergy.”
The Huffington Post: Bishop Gene Robinson: How Religion Is Killing Our Most Vulnerable Youth
“The night she told the news to Billy, he withheld his own news of the wage-cut, and joined with her in welcoming the little one.”
“Much of it questions DOJ's timing, motives and veracity in welcoming all witnesses, including former Republican lieutenant governor Bill Johnson.”
“At the gate, oh, meet us thus, As we loved Thee_Child like us; Stretch Thine hands in welcoming To Thine own, O little King.”
“Keith does a service to the community in welcoming ideas, though it should be clear to everyone that, like a newspaper, he doesn't print everything he gets.”
Repugnant Behavior on the Part of One NASA Employee - NASA Watch
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘welcoming’.
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POL - What is Mitt talking about?
Key terms from Mitt Romney's election campaign
good and generous..., hard fought election, go back to work, optimistic and po..., confident in the ..., optimism, uniquely American, nation of immigrants, want a better life, life in that plac..., pursuit of the ri..., richness of this ... and 369 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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a few of my favorite words
these are some of my favorite words...
brilliant, delicious, lovely, ever, with, present, here, light, radiant, bright, beauty, live and 209 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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I'd like to use these words more
jarring, stunning, habitually, mull, markedly, rigamorole, rigmarole, placate, higgledy-piggledy, fearsome, throw light, clear-eyed and 68 more...
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Work
home, house, new, beautiful, attractive, amenity, neighborhood, community, welcoming, splendid, fantastic
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