"admission" Definition

Definitions for the word "admission" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The act or practice of admitting.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 acknowledgement (admission of error). 2 a process or right of entering. B charge for this (admission is £5).
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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