receive

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsiːv/

Reading level: easy

Estimated CEFR level: A1 — Beginner

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb get something; come into possession of
  2. verb receive a specified treatment (abstract)
  3. verb register (perceptual input)

Etymology

From Middle English receyven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -fōn), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þiċġan), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir).

In classic literature

Synonyms

have

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
get
Narrower (hyponyms)
take in, fence, accept, hustle, inherit, graduate

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