welcome

1. 1.

   the state of being welcome

   “don't outstay your welcome”

   Broaderacceptance
2. 2.

   a greeting or reception

   “the proposal got a warm welcome”

   Broadergreeting

   Narrowercordial receptioninhospitalityglad hand

1. 1.

   giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted

   “a welcome relief”

   “a welcome guest”

   “made the children feel welcome”

   “you are welcome to join us”

   Antonymsunwelcome

Other forms of welcome

plural

welcomes·

past tense

welcomed·

present participle

welcoming·

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 welcome

What does welcome mean?

welcome means "accept gladly". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in welcome?

welcome has 2 syllables: wel-come. The stress falls on "wel". In IPA it is /ˈwɛlkəm/.

What is another word for welcome?

Close synonyms include receive. 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.

What is the opposite of welcome?

The recorded antonyms are say farewell, unwelcome.

Is welcome a common word?

welcome 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 welcome?

1 word rhymes with welcome. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.