English-Spanish translations for reception

• recepción
  Les invito a una breve recepción. I invite you to a brief reception.
  Tienen que ver además con la solidaridad y los sistemas de recepción. They also concern solidarity and reception systems.
  También podemos actuar como centro de recepción de ideas, como un laboratorio. We can also act as a reception centre for ideas, as a laboratory.
• cobertura
• recibimiento
  Antes de esta presentación, quiero darles las gracias por el recibimiento que dieron a la Presidenta de Irlanda, la Sra. Mary McAleese, durante su visita el pasado mes de noviembre. Before I make this presentation, may I thank you for the reception you gave the President of Ireland, Mrs Mary McAleese, during her visit last November.

Definition of reception

• The act of receiving
• A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone
• A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc
• The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received
• The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture

Examples

• We have poor TV reception in the valley.
• The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.
• After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.
• The ambassadors jokes met a cold reception.

Related words

• receptionist
• chemoreception
• preception
• reception desk
• reception center
• reception room
• reception centre
• reception hall
• reception and transmission