Definition of welcome

"welcome" in the noun sense

1. welcome

the state of being welcome

"don't outstay your welcome"

2. welcome

a greeting or reception

"the proposal got a warm welcome"

"welcome" in the verb sense

1. welcome

accept gladly

"I welcome your proposals"

2. welcome, receive

bid welcome to greet upon arrival

3. welcome

receive someone, as into one's house

"welcome" in the adjective sense

1. welcome

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"

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Quotations for welcome

As welcome as a storm. [ Proverb ]

Welcome is the best cheer. [ Proverb ]

As welcome as flowers in May. [ Proverb ]

I GREET you as host!
Unfold the pages of my heart
And read therein your welcome. [ Ben Jonson ]

Such a welcome such a farewell. [ Proverb ]

After war, let us welcome peace. [ Constantine ]

The rich need not beg a welcome. [ Proverb ]

Promised relief is always welcome. [ Proverb ]

A constant guest is never welcome. [ Proverb ]

Welcome, dear Goldenrod, once more.
Thou mimic, flowering elm!
I always think that summer's store
Hangs from thy laden stem. [ Horace H. Scudder ]

Milk says to wine, Welcome, friend. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Welcome evil, if thou comest alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

As welcome as water in one's shoes. [ Proverb ]

When all fruit fails, welcome haws. [ Proverb ]

Welcome mischief, if you come alone. [ Proverb ]

And kind the voice and glad the eyes
That welcome my return at night. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

Welcome as happy tidings after fears. [ Otway ]

His worth is warrant for his welcome. [ William Shakespeare ]

A calm is most welcome after a storm. [ Proverb ]

Quiet persons are welcome every where. [ Proverb ]

As welcome as water in a leaking ship. [ Proverb ]

O death! the poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour, my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest! [ Burns ]

To say you are welcome were superfluous. [ William Shakespeare ]

Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen. [ Proverb ]

Come and welcome; go by, and no quarrel. [ Proverb ]

Welcome, misfortune, if thou comest alone. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Trust me, sweet,
Out of this silence yet I picked a welcome. [ William Shakespeare ]

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty is everywhere a right welcome guest. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Eat, and welcome; fast, and heartily welcome. [ Proverb ]

O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope.
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. [ Milton ]

Welcome, grave stranger, to our green retreats,
Where health with exercise and freedom meets. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

For man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth
More welcome touch his understanding's eye,
Than all the blandishments of sound his ear,
Than all of taste his tongue. [ Akenside ]

Your dirty shoes are not welcome in my parlour. [ Proverb ]

As this auspicious day began the race
Of every virtue join'd with every grace;
May you, who own them, welcome its return,
Till excellence, like yours, again is born.
The years we wish, will half your charms impair;
The years we wish the better half will spare;
The victims of your eyes will bleed no more,
But all the beauties of your mind adore. [ Jeffrey ]

The world well tried, the sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. [ Willis ]

Welcome as kindly showers to long-parched earth. [ Dryden ]

The worse the passage, the more welcome the port. [ Proverb ]

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell. [ Proverb ]

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. [ William Shakespeare ]

True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. [ Homer, Pope's Odyssey ]

The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony. [ William Shakespeare ]

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. [ William Shakespeare ]

Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside. [ Longfellow ]

I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear. [ William Shakespeare ]

Like a river down the gutter roars the rain, the welcome rain! [ Longfellow ]

Unpleasing errors are never so welcome as pleasing falsehoods. [ Proverb ]

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least. [ Johnson ]

Now I have got an ewe and a lamb, every one cries welcome Peter. [ Proverb ]

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. [ Theophile Gautier ]

Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse. [ Proverb ]

The hour of happiness will come the more welcome when it is not expected. [ Horace ]

Advice is seldom welcome; those who want it the most always like it the least. [ Chesterfield ]

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome. [ Massinger ]

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings! [ Bible ]

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep. [ Ilosea Ballou ]

The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcome. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Bid that welcome which comes to punish us, and we punish it, seeming to bear it lightly. [ William Shakespeare ]

The parted bosom clings to wonted home, if aught that's kindred cheer the welcome hearth. [ Byron ]

Death shuns the naked throat and proffered breast; he flies when called to be a welcome guest. [ Sir Charles Sedley ]

Strong as man and tender as woman, they welcome you in every mood, and never turn from you in distress. [ J. A. Langford ]

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven. [ Jonathan Edwards ]

O gentle sleep! my welcome breath shall hail thee midst our mortal strife, who art the very thief of life, the very portraiture of death. [ Alonzo de Ledesma ]

Earth has one angel less, and heaven one more since yesterday. Already, kneeling at the throne, she has received her welcome, and is resting on the bosom of her Saviour. [ Hawthorne ]

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him. [ Rutherford ]

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven? [ Mrs. Balfour ]

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. [ Willmott ]

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]

welcome in Scrabble®

The word welcome is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters welcome:

WELCOME
(106 = 56 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

welcome

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word welcome

WELCOME
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WELCOME
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WELCOME
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In welcome

WELCOME
(106 = 56 + 50)
WELCOME
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WELCOME
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welcome in Words With Friends™

The word welcome is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters welcome:

WELCOME
(134 = 99 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

welcome

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word welcome

WELCOME
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In welcome

WELCOME
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Words within the letters of welcome

2 letter words in welcome (5 words)

3 letter words in welcome (14 words)

4 letter words in welcome (5 words)

6 letter words in welcome (1 word)

7 letter words in welcome (1 word)

welcome + 1 blank (3 words)

welcome + 2 blanks (3 words)

Words containing the sequence welcome

Words with welcome in them (2 words)

Words that end with welcome (2 words)

Word Growth involving welcome

Shorter words in welcome

me come

el

we

Longer words containing welcome

unwelcome unwelcomed

welcomed unwelcomed

welcomeless

welcomeness

welcomer welcomers

welcomes welcomest