I stayed home last night to be able to receive your call.
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Receive
//ɹɪˈsiːv//
Synonyms for "receive" (218 found)
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Closest matches (44)
Strong matches (65)
Related words (109)
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17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
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3 entriesSynonyms
5 entriesRelated terms
14 entriesderived
15 entriesdistinct from
1 entrieshas context
7 entriesmanner of
7 entriesrelated to
52 entriesShowing 16 of 52 words.
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6 entriesTranslations
213 translations across 96 languages.
Afrikaans
4 entries- kry verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- ontvang verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- ontvang verb (to take possession of)
- ontvang verb (to act as a host for guests)
Albanian
1 entries- marr verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- δέχομαι verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- δέχομαι verb (to act as a host for guests)
Arabic
4 entries- استقبل verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- الاِسْتِقبَال verb (to act as a host for guests)
- اِسْتَقْبَلَ verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- اِسْتَقْبَلَ verb (to act as a host for guests)
Armenian
2 entries- ստանալ verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- ստանալ verb (to take possession of)
Aromanian
2 entries- dhixescu verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- dixescu verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Asturian
1 entries- recibir verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- almaq verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- qonaq qəbul etmək verb (to act as a host for guests)
Bangi
1 entries- yamba verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Belarusian
2 entries- атры́мліваць verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- атрыма́ць verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Bengali
1 entries- পাওয়া verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Bulgarian
4 entries- полу́ча verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- получа́вам verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- получа́вам verb (to take possession of)
- прие́мам verb (to act as a host for guests)
Burmese
1 entries- ခံ verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Catalan
4 entries- rebre verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- rebre verb (to take possession of)
- rebre verb (telecommunications: to detect a signal)
- recebre verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- پێشوازی کردن verb (to act as a host for guests)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏯᏂᎭ verb (to act as a host for guests)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 收到 verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 接到 verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- 收 verb (to take possession of)
- 收到 verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Cornish
1 entries- degemeres verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Czech
4 entries- dostat verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- dostat verb (to take possession of)
- obdržet verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- obdržet verb (to take possession of)
Danish
1 entries- få verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Dutch
4 entries- krijgen verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- ontvangen verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- ontvangen verb (to take possession of)
- ontvangen verb (to act as a host for guests)
Esperanto
1 entries- ricevi verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Estonian
2 entries- saama verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- võõrustama verb (to act as a host for guests)
Finnish
4 entries- ottaa vastaan verb (to take possession of)
- ottaa vastaan verb (to act as a host for guests)
- ottaa vastaan verb (telecommunications: to detect a signal)
- saada verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
French
4 entries- recevoir verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- recevoir verb (to take possession of)
- recevoir verb (to act as a host for guests)
- recevoir verb (telecommunications: to detect a signal)
Friulian
1 entries- ricevi verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Galician
4 entries- recibir verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- recibir verb (to take possession of)
- recibir verb (to act as a host for guests)
- recibir verb (telecommunications: to detect a signal)
Georgian
1 entries- მიღება verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
German
4 entries- bekommen verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- empfangen verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- empfangen verb (to take possession of)
- empfangen verb (to act as a host for guests)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Greek
2 entries- δέχομαι verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- λαμβάνω verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Hebrew
1 entries- קיבל verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Hindi
4 entries- अगवानी करना verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- ग्रहण करना verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- प्राप्त करना verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- लेना verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Hungarian
3 entries- fog verb (telecommunications: to detect a signal)
- kap verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- megkap verb (to take possession of)
Icelandic
1 entries- fá verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Ido
1 entries- aceptar verb (to act as a host for guests)
Ingrian
1 entries- saavva verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Interlingua
1 entries- reciper verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Irish
1 entries- faigh verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Italian
2 entries- ricevere verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- ricevere verb (to take possession of)
Japanese
4 entries- 受ける verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- 受け取る verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- 受け取る verb (to take possession of)
- 貰う verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Javanese
1 entries- tampa verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Kambera
1 entries- kei verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Kazakh
1 entries- алу verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Khmer
1 entries- ទទួល verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Korean
2 entries- 받다 verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- 받다 verb (to take possession of)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- алуу verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Ladin
1 entries- rezever verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Lao
1 entries- ຮັບ verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Latin
2 entries- accipiō verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- recipiō verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Latvian
1 entries- saņemt verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Lingala
1 entries- yamba verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Lithuanian
1 entries- gauti verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- pśiwześ verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Macedonian
2 entries- до́бива verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- до́бие verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Malay
1 entries- terima verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠠᠯᡳᠮᠪᡳ verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Mongolian
2 entries- худалдаж авах verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- хүлээн авах verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Māori
4 entries- rāhiri verb (to act as a host for guests)
- taupaepae verb (to act as a host for guests)
- tuku verb (to act as a host for guests)
- tūtohi verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Ngazidja Comorian
3 entries- hwerewa verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- uhundra verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- urenga verb (to act as a host for guests)
Norman
2 entries- r'chéver verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- r'chéver verb (to take possession of)
North Frisian
2 entries- fu verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- füünj verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- få verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- ta imot verb (to act as a host for guests)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- få verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- ta imot verb (to act as a host for guests)
Occitan
1 entries- recebre verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Old French
3 entries- receivre verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- recevoir verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- reçoivre verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Old Irish
1 entries- ad·cota verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Old Javanese
2 entries- tampa verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- tarima verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Old Occitan
1 entries- recebre verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Persian
2 entries- دریافت کردن verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- گرفتن verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Polish
2 entries- dostać verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- otrzymać verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Portuguese
3 entries- ganhar verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- receber verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- receber verb (to take possession of)
Quechua
1 entries- chaskiy verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Romanian
3 entries- primi verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- primi verb (to take possession of)
- recepționa verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Russian
4 entries- лови́ть verb (telecommunications: to detect a signal)
- пойма́ть verb (telecommunications: to detect a signal)
- получа́ть verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- получа́ть verb (to take possession of)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- faigh verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- primiti verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- примити verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Slovak
2 entries- dostať verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- obdržať verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Slovene
1 entries- prejeti verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Spanish
2 entries- recibir verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- recibir verb (to take possession of)
Swahili
2 entries- pokea verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- pokea verb (to take possession of)
Swedish
4 entries- erhålla verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- få verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- motta verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- motta verb (to take possession of)
Tagalog
1 entries- tumanggap verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Tajik
2 entries- гирифтан verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- дарёфт кардан verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Tatar
1 entries- алырга verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Thai
1 entries- รับ verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Turkish
1 entries- almak verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Turkmen
1 entries- almak verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Ukrainian
3 entries- отри́мати verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- отри́мувати verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- прийма́ти verb (to act as a host for guests)
Uzbek
1 entries- olmoq verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Vietnamese
3 entries- lĩnh verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- nhận verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- thu verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Volapük
1 entries- lasumön verb (to act as a host for guests)
Welsh
2 entries- cael verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- derbyn verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Yiddish
2 entries- מקבל זײַן verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
- קריגן verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Zou
1 entries- nga verb (to take what is offered, accept from another)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
Now that we are established in our new house we shall be glad to receive visitors.
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We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
Source: tatoeba (29100)
The law enables us to receive an annuity.
Source: tatoeba (43996)
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