受け — meaning in English

English meaning

• bottom noun The lowest part of something.
• reception noun A formal social event, often to welcome or honor someone.

Senses

受け is used for these senses in English:

• bottom (countable, broadly, by extension) A submissive partner in a sexual relationship.
• reception (linguistics) Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.

bottom — full definition

1. noun The lowest part of something.
2. noun A person's buttocks.
3. verb To reach the lowest point possible, especially in "bottom out."
4. adj Lowest in position, rank, or order.

reception — full definition

1. noun A formal social event, often to welcome or honor someone.
2. noun The desk or area where visitors are greeted in a business or hotel.
3. noun The quality of a received broadcast signal.
4. noun The way something is responded to or welcomed by others.

Related Japanese words