Concierge vs. Reception — What's the Difference?

A concierge (French pronunciation: ​[kɔ̃sjɛʁʒ]) is an employee of a multi-tenant building, such as a hotel or apartment building, who receives guests. The concept has been applied more generally to other hospitality settings and to personal concierges who manage the errands of private clients.

The action or process of receiving something sent, given, or inflicted

A staff member of a hotel or apartment complex who assists guests or residents, as by handling the storage of luggage, taking and delivering messages, and making reservations for tours.

A formal social occasion held to welcome someone or to celebrate an event

A person, especially in France, who lives in an apartment house, attends the entrance, and serves as a janitor.

The process of receiving broadcast signals

One who attends to the wishes of hotel guests.

The area in a hotel or organization where guests and visitors are greeted and dealt with

(British) One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.

The first class in an infant or primary school

(obsolete) conciergerie.

An act of catching a pass

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

The act or process of receiving or of being received.

A French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter

(Football) The act or an instance of catching a forward pass.

A welcome, greeting, or acceptance

A social function, especially one intended to provide a welcome or greeting

Mental approval or acceptance

Conversion of transmitted electromagnetic signals into perceptible forms, such as sound or light, by means of antennas and electronic equipment.

The condition or quality of the signals so received.

The act of receiving.

The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

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

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

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

(law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.

(American football) The act of catching a pass.

(linguistics) 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.

The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

The state of being received.

The act or manner of receiving, especially of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.

Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.

A retaking; a recovery.

The manner in which something is greeted;

A formal party of people; as after a wedding

Quality or fidelity of a received broadcast

The act of receiving

(American football) the act of catching a pass in football;