received

1. 1.

   conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers

   “standard English”

   “received standard English is sometimes called the King's English”

   Synonymsstandard

   Similaracceptableclassical

   linguistics

2. 2.

   widely accepted as true or worthy

   “a received moral idea”

   “Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise”

   Similarconventional

Other forms of received

comparative

receivedder·

superlative

receiveddest·

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 received

What does received mean?

received means "conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in received?

received has 2 syllables: recei-ved. The stress falls on "ved". In IPA it is /ɹəˈsivd/.

What is another word for received?

Close synonyms include standard. 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 received a common word?

received is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 received?

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