receive

Other forms of receive

past tense

received·

present participle

receiving·

third person

receives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about receive

What does receive mean?

receive means "get something; come into possession of". That is the primary sense; the word has 13 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in receive?

receive has 2 syllables: re-ceive. The stress falls on "ceive". In IPA it is /ɹəˈsiv/.

What is another word for receive?

Close synonyms include have, get, find, obtain, incur. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is receive a common word?

receive is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with receive?

6 words rhyme with receive. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.