admit

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verb (used with object), ad·mit·ted, ad·mit·ting.

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 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.

verb (used without object), ad·mit·ted, ad·mit·ting.

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

1375–1425; < Latin admittere, equivalent to ad- ad- + mittere to send, let go; replacing late Middle English amitte, with a- a-⁵ (instead of ad-) < Middle French amettre < Latin, as above

Related formsad·mit·ta·ble, ad·mit·ti·ble, adjectivead·mit·ter, nounhalf-ad·mit·ted, adjectivehalf-ad·mit·ted·ly, adverbnon·ad·mit·ted, adjective, nounnon·ad·mit·ted·ly, adverbpre·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.un·ad·mit·ted, adjectiveun·ad·mit·ted·ly, adverbwell-ad·mit·ted, adjective

Synonyms for admit

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1. receive. 6. own, avow.

Synonym study

6. See acknowledge.

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Related Words for admitted

grant, receive, permit, introduce, sign, concede, accept, enter, take, disclose, reveal, affirm, confirm, recognize, tell, indicate, allow, declare, approve, agree

Examples from the Web for admitted

Contemporary Examples of admitted

But the program is just six weeks long, the Pentagon admitted Monday.
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Nancy A. Youssef
January 6, 2015
But this may be a distinction without much of a difference—especially since Scalise admitted speaking before EURO.
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Tim Mak
December 30, 2014
A 59-year-old retired subway train driver, who gave his name only as Artist, admitted that he had family members in the NYPD.
Protesters Demand Justice For Gurley As Gap Grows Between Cops and NYC
M.L. Nestel
December 28, 2014
As I sign the forms to be admitted to have surgery the next day, I ask my husband the date.
You’re Never ‘Cured’ of an Eating Disorder
Carrie Arnold
December 20, 2014
Police then lied to Henry by telling him that if he admitted his guilt, he could go home.
How the U.S. Justice System Screws Prisoners with Disabilities
Elizabeth Picciuto
December 16, 2014

Historical Examples of admitted

He made his way to the house of Squire Paine, and, after a brief pause, was admitted.
Brave and Bold
Horatio Alger
She had left it impulsively, she admitted, scarce knowing what she did.
Malbone
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"He did seem rather cut up about the stables," Austin admitted.
Viviette
William J. Locke
The constituencies; and into these constituencies had been admitted the Jews.
The Grand Old Man
Richard B. Cook
But a sense in which God is "unknowable" to us has to be admitted.
The Conquest of Fear
Basil King

British Dictionary definitions for admitted

admit

verb -mits, -mitting or -mitted (mainly tr)

(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 accessthe door admits onto the lawn

Word Origin for admit

C14: from Latin admittere to let come or go to, from ad- to + mittere to send

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Word Origin and History for admitted

admit

late 14c., "let in," from Latin admittere "to allow to enter, let in, let come, give access," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + mittere "let go, send" (see mission). Sense of "to concede as valid or true" is first recorded early 15c. Related: Admitted; Admitting.