レセプション
解説 Definition
receptions は reception の複数形で、来客を迎えたりもてなしたりするレセプション、歓迎会、披露宴などを指します。人を受け入れる行為や受付の場所を複数指す場合もありますが、ここでの例文は催しの用法です。
Plural events held to welcome, honor, or entertain guests, such as wedding celebrations or gatherings after a conference. The form may also refer to multiple acts or places of receiving people, but the examples chiefly concern social events.
使い方 Usage
- wedding receptions は「結婚披露宴」。hold receptions は「レセプションを開く」、host receptions は「主催する」です。 Wedding receptions are wedding celebrations. Hold receptions means to organize the events, while host receptions emphasizes acting as their host.
- several receptions や two receptions のように数を表せます。複数語尾の -s は /z/ と発音します。 Use expressions such as several receptions or two receptions to indicate number. The plural ending -s is pronounced /z/.
使い分け Common distinctions
- ホテルなどの reception は「受付」を指すこともあります。wedding、guests、held などが催しの意味を判断する手掛かりです。 Reception can also refer to a hotel's front-desk area. Words such as wedding, guests, and held help identify the event sense.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
receive「受け取る、迎える」と結び付け、人を受け入れる催しを思い浮かべましょう。reception に -s が付き、複数の歓迎会や披露宴を表す形として覚えます。
Link receptions with receive and picture events that welcome people. Adding -s to reception gives the plural form, used for multiple welcoming gatherings or wedding celebrations.
例文
The hotel hosts wedding receptions every weekend.
そのホテルでは毎週末、結婚披露宴が開かれます。
Several receptions were held after the conference.
会議の後にいくつかのレセプションが開かれました。
The museum planned two small receptions for the guests.
博物館は来客のために小規模なレセプションを二つ計画しました。
receptions の類義語・関連語
receptions の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 receptio（受け取ること）から。re-（再び）+ capere（取る）が語根で、仏語 réception を経て英語に入った。関連語：receive, capture。「受け取る行為」が原義で、歓迎会・受付・受信など「受け入れる場や行為」全般に意味が広がった。
Receptions is the plural of reception. Reception entered English through Old French from Latin receptio, “a receiving,” related to recipere, “to receive or take back.” That verb combines re- with capere, “to take,” though its inherited form changed through Latin sound development. The central idea of receiving explains the word’s later applications to welcoming guests, a front-desk area, public response, and signal capture. Here, the plural refers specifically to more than one welcoming or celebratory gathering.
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