"admit" Definition

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

1. v. t.
To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v.
(-tt-) 1 (often foll. By to be, or that + clause) acknowledge; recognize as true. 2 (foll. By to) confess to (a deed, fault, etc.). 3 allow (a person) entrance, access, etc. 4 take (a patient) into hospital. 5 (of an enclosed space) accommodate. 6 (foll. By of) allow as possible. [latin mitto miss- send]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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