WELCOMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does welcoming mean? 

• WELCOMING (adjective)
  The adjective WELCOMING has 1 sense:

1. very cordial

  Familiarity information: WELCOMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELCOMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very cordial

Context example:

a welcoming smile

Similar:

hospitable (disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity)

 Context examples 

I'm obleeged to you, sir, for your welcoming manner of me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, “Is not this nice? Is not this an agreeable surprise?”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Friends have been warm and welcoming, and if you have had anything troubling you, any one of them would be willing to give you their full attention to discuss your feelings and options.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It had been a great disappointment to Mr Musgrove to find that no earlier day could be fixed, so impatient was he to shew his gratitude, by seeing Captain Wentworth under his own roof, and welcoming him to all that was strongest and best in his cellars.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Certain it was that she was to come; and that Highbury, instead of welcoming that perfect novelty which had been so long promised it—Mr. Frank Churchill—must put up for the present with Jane Fairfax, who could bring only the freshness of a two years' absence.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As they came up onto the stone plateau that crowns the hill, Amy waved her hand as if welcoming him to her favorite haunt, and said, pointing here and there, Do you remember the Cathedral and the Corso, the fishermen dragging their nets in the bay, and the lovely road to Villa Franca, Schubert's Tower, just below, and best of all, that speck far out to sea which they say is Corsica?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A joyous stir was now audible in the hall: gentlemen's deep tones and ladies' silvery accents blent harmoniously together, and distinguishable above all, though not loud, was the sonorous voice of the master of Thornfield Hall, welcoming his fair and gallant guests under its roof.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With these expressions, Mr. Micawber placed Mrs. Micawber in a chair, and embraced the family all round; welcoming a variety of bleak prospects, which appeared, to the best of my judgement, to be anything but welcome to them; and calling upon them to come out into Canterbury and sing a chorus, as nothing else was left for their support.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Poor Mr. Woodhouse little suspected what was plotting against him in the breast of that man whom he was so cordially welcoming, and so anxiously hoping might not have taken cold from his ride.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)