reception vs welcome

reception

noun
  • A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone. 

  • The act of receiving. 

  • The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education. 

  • The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture. 

  • The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals. 

  • The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received. 

  • A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc. 

  • The act of catching a pass. 

  • 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. 

welcome

noun
  • The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception. 

  • The utterance of such a greeting. 

  • Kind reception of a guest or newcomer. 

  • The state of being a welcome guest. 

intj
  • Greeting given upon someone's arrival. 

verb
  • To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!". 

  • To accept something willingly or gladly. 

adj
  • Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company. 

  • Producing gladness. 

  • Free to have or enjoy gratuitously. 

How often have the words reception and welcome occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )