WordNet
n. kindness in welcoming guests or strangers [syn: hospitality] [ant: inhospitality]
Usage examples of "cordial reception".
The general introduced me to them as one of the Grand Council Fire at Philadelphia, upon which they made me many bows and cordial reception.
I'd expected a less cordial reception, in view of the consequences of my former advice, but though no one actually welcomed me into the Chancellor's office, no one forbade my entering it, either.
These officers said they would take it upon themselves to insure us a cordial reception.
Jamie plainly did not consider the fact that he hadn't met this particular aunt in forty-odd years to be any bar to our cordial reception, and I was quite sure he was right.
My cordial reception provided clear evidence of the high regard in which Mereth was held by these trading folk.