| 单词 | welcome home |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswelcome home 2. welcome home. extracted from welcomen.2 a. Entertainment provided to celebrate the return home of a person; also, expressions of greeting made at a person's homecoming. Also transferred. Also frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > for those returning home welcome home1531 1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. cxv As when we call one that is new come home to breakefast & sett a capon before him and saye, this is youre wellcome home. 1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 296 She had good prouision of embracings, & wanton toyes, to feast him at his welcome home. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 776 Sylla of Carthage, upon my returne to Rome, after I had bene long absent, invited me to a supper for my welcome home. 1637 S. Rutherford Let. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 186 Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven. 1680 Lady Russell Let. 6 Mar. (1807) 3 I am very earnest to hear,..how my brother is after his journey, and melancholy welcome home. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate ii I hope Madeleine has not forgotten my fire,’ murmured Miss Riddell, as she walked..down the Champs Elysées. ‘Such evenings as these one wants a welcome home.’ 1955 B. Pym Less than Angels vi. 71 We aren't getting on very fast with your welcome-home party. 1966 B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 32 He would take the creature up to the Musaka's and ask Miriamu to prepare it as a special ‘welcome home’ supper for Yosefu. 1974 M. Birmingham You can help Me viii. 178 It gives me the chance to be part of your welcome-home committee. b. Scottish. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > house-warming infare1487 house-warming1577 warming of the house1650 house-heating1792 welcome home1808 fire kindling1825 house-warmer1901 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Welcome-haim, the repast presented to a bride, when she enters the house of a bridegroom. 1818 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Nov. 415/1 On Monday evening, just about gloamin, the husbands and wives of the village assemble at the house of the newly-married couple, to celebrate the welcome hame, by a good drink and funny crack. c. dialect. A bell tolled on the occasion of a person's death. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > bell > passing-bell passing bell1526 passing peal1533 forthfare1551 death bell1554 soul bell1599 welcome home1878 1878 F. Kilvert Jrnl. 25 Dec. (1977) 328 The Welcome Home, as it chimed softly and slowly to greet the little pilgrim coming to his rest, sounded bleared and muffled through the thick snowy air. 1948 F. Thompson Still glides Stream xii. 226 It was a small, homely procession which..accompanied Reuben on the last of his many journeys. The silvery sweet strain of a robin threaded the silence. ‘The welcome home!’ said Mrs. Finch. to welcome home b. Const. to, into (a place). Also with adverbs of place, as ashore, back, up; esp. to welcome home. ΚΠ c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5465 He nom forð-rihtes. six wise cnihtes to Custance heom sende. & wilcumede [c1300 Otho wilcomede] hine to londe. a1380 S. Bernard 1039 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 58/2 Þe erchebisshop aȝein him sent A worþi clerk of good entent, Him to welcome curteisliche In to þat ilke bisschopriche. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15060 Þe receiues þin aun folk, And welcums þe hame. a1450 Mirk's Festial 115 Welcomyng hym wyth songe into þe chirch, as þay welcomet hym syngyng into þe cyte of Ierusalem. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 370 And there they hull, expecting but the aide, Of Buckingham, to welcome them a shore. View more context for this quotation 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 214 Your wiues shall welcome home the conquerors. View more context for this quotation 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 71 Probus was welcommed into Britaine. 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn iii, in Poems 2 Hast thou no..solemn strein, To welcom him to this his new abode..? 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. vi. 67 They were interrupted..by the entrance of their landlord, who called to welcome them to Barton. View more context for this quotation 1894 Lady M. Verney Verney Mem. III. 293 No one welcomed him back with the womanly love which mother and sister would have lavished upon him. < as lemmas |
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