迎える

to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to greet; to salute; to hail

to call for; to summon; to invite

to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to take (e.g. a wife)

to reach (a certain time, a point in one's life, etc.); to enter (a new phase, new era, etc.); to approach (e.g. death)