Meaning of Welcomer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something which or someone who welcomes people, especially newcomers.
2. Something or someone that greets or is present for the arrival of something.

Equivalents

Examples

“1764, Sir Humphrey Lunatic (pseudonym of Francis Gentleman), A Trip⟳ to the Moon, London: S. Crowder, 2nd edition, 1765, Volume I, Chapter 2, p. 21, At this Point⟳ of Time my Host⟳, as I may call⟳ my sage Welcomer, directed a Kind of Procession, which tho’ not grand, nor very regular, appeared to be calculated as a high Compliment to me […]”

“On their arrival the station was lively with straw-hatted young men, welcoming young girls who bore a remarkable family likeness to their welcomers, and who were dressed up in the brightest and lightest of raiment.”

“It transpired that my welcomers, without whose kindness I should now have⟳ been in tears, had made me an honorary member of the Sind Club, a palace of comfort, good food, and eternal drinks, set⟳ in a compound of flowering trees, where I found myself in possession of a suite of three rooms and the usual offices.”

“...but I never thought that my first "welcomer" to the sea would be a pilot whale.”

“Farewell, thou woful welcomer of glory!”

“Bloodroot in the leafless wood, Companion of gray Solitude, When the birds begin⟳ to sing⟳, Thou, frail welcomer of Spring⟳, Dost thy whitcray'd star unfold, With its seedheart of green'gold, And remindest us how Faith Blooms victorious over Death.”

“The window - sign⟳ of human life, wink to the passerby, eye of the building allowing one to gaze at the outside world without being seen, welcomer of the daylight and the sun's ray highlighting surfaces and objects, source of fresh air and sometimes place⟳ of exchange⟳ of words and smells . . . but also a break⟳ in the wall's structural continuity, and thus place⟳ of vulnerability, fragility, thermal sensitivity, leakage.”

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