A welcome is a greeting given upon someone's arrival.

Quotes

• 'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark
  Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home;
  'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
  Our coming, and look brighter when we come.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 123.

• He enter'd in his house—his home no more,
  For without hearts there is no home;—and felt
  The solitude of passing his own door
  Without a welcome.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto III, Stanza 52.

• “The better of the two is one who is the first to give a greeting” (6210).
  • Sahih Muslim. Quoted from Ram Swarup, Understanding Islam through Hadis, 1983.

• Bid that welcome
  Which comes to punish us, and we punish it
  Seeming to bear it lightly.
  • William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act IV, scene 14, line 136.

• I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear.
  • William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act III, scene 1, line 21.

• A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.
  • William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act III, scene 1, line 23.

• Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
  • William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act III, scene 1, line 26.

• Sir, you are very welcome to our house:
  It must appear in other ways than words,
  Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.
  • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 139.

• Trust me, sweet,
  Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome.
  • William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act V, scene 1, line 99.

• Welcome ever smiles,
  And farewell goes out sighing.
  • William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act III, scene 3, line 168.

• His worth is warrant for his welcome.
  • William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act II, scene 4, line 102.

• I reckon this always, that a man is never undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome!"
  • William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act II, scene 5, line 3.

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