welcomer

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English welcomer, welcomere, equivalent to welcome +‎ -er (agent suffix).

Noun edit

welcomer (plural welcomers)

Something which or someone who welcomes people, especially newcomers.
- 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,^[1]
  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 […]
- 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure‎^[2], Part Six, Chapter 1:
  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.
- 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet‎^[3], Part II, Chapter 2:
  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.
- 2006, William Pinkney, As Long as it Takes: Meeting the Challenge, →ISBN, page 83:
  ...but I never thought that my first "welcomer" to the sea would be a pilot whale.
Something or someone that greets or is present for the arrival of something.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
  Farewell, thou woful welcomer of glory!
- 1915, Paul Shivell, Stillwater Pastorals: And Other Poems, page 25:
  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.
- 2013, Pierre von Meiss, Elements of Architecture: From Form to Place, →ISBN, page 3:
  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.

Translations edit

something which or someone who welcomes people

German: Begrüßer (male or of unspecified sex), Begrüßerin (female), Begrüßungskomitee (de) (a small group of welcomers), Willkommenheißer m

someone or something that greets or is present for the arrival of something

German: Empfangsperson (of unspecified sex), Begrüßer (male or of unspecified sex), Begrüßerin (female), Begrüßungskomitee (de) (a small group of welcomers), Grüßaugust (de) m (derogatory)

Etymology 2 edit

From welcome +‎ -er (comparative suffix).

Adjective edit

welcomer

comparative form of welcome: more welcome