admit
to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
to register (a person) as an inpatient at a hospital: After seeing the test results, the emergency room doctor admitted her and put her on intravenous fluids.
to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.
to permit; allow.
to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.
to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.
to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.
to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.
to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.
to permit the possibility of something; allow (usually followed by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation.
Origin of admit
1synonym study For admit
Other words for admit
Other words from admit
- ad·mit·ta·ble, ad·mit·ti·ble, adjective
- ad·mit·ter, noun
- pre·ad·mit, verb (used with object), pre·ad·mit·ted, pre·ad·mit·ting.
- re·ad·mit, verb, re·ad·mit·ted, re·ad·mit·ting.
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How to use admit in a sentence
It was “serendipity,” she laughs, admitting that the idea came to her while speaking to a client — a large, burly man crammed into a small, decorated closet space.
Although the man who named misophonia admits the name is imperfect.
Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears (Ep. 439) | Stephen J. Dubner | November 12, 2020 | FreakonomicsWhen I asked LoTemplio what kinds of things she would want to learn by looking at the brain, she admitted that “some might argue you don’t even need to look at the brain if you’re just observing these kinds of cognitive improvements.”
Are We Wired to Be Outside? - Issue 92: Frontiers | Grigori Guitchounts | November 11, 2020 | NautilusIn a recent interview, Luhnow maintained he would have stopped the cheating “had I known about it,” admitting “it was bad” and “shouldn’t have happened.”
Jeff Luhnow, fired as GM after sign-stealing scandal, sues Astros for $22 million | Cindy Boren | November 10, 2020 | Washington PostPoint guard Kihei Clark participated in pickup games in Los Angeles, admitting it probably was a bit risky given social distancing protocols.
Pickup games, one-on-one and a wedding: How Virginia basketball spent the pandemic | Gene Wang | November 9, 2020 | Washington Post
Klein paints a rosy picture of the charter schools, while admitting that not all outperformed traditional public schools.
Last week, a British woman committed suicide after admitting she had harassed the McCanns online.
Yet, while admitting that TMZ sometimes performs a valuable public service, not everyone is an unalloyed fan.
How TMZ Claims Its Celebrity Scalps, Like Ray Rice | Lloyd Grove | September 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHer achievements finally led the United States Polo Association to begin admitting women in 1972.
Beaird seemed to be either admitting perjury or committing it.
The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie | Michael Daly | August 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWere it so, there should be no ground for admitting the fact of any covenant even among men.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamIn admitting a member, if no form of election has been prescribed, each candidate must be elected separately.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesThe company is composed of three contracting persons without admitting therein any other whatever.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickThe proceeding then is much like an equity trial with perhaps a wider latitude in admitting evidence bearing on the inquiry.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesHe looked younger, too, and no one could help admitting that he had that grand air that denotes birth and breeding.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph Hocking
British Dictionary definitions for admit
/ (ədˈmɪt) /
(may take a clause as object) to confess or acknowledge (a crime, mistake, etc)
(may take a clause as object) to concede (the truth or validity of something)
to allow to enter; let in
(foll by to) to allow participation (in) or the right to be part (of): to admit to the profession
(when intr, foll by of) to allow (of); leave room (for)
(intr) to give access: the door admits onto the lawn
Origin of admit
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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