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.

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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

SYNONYMS FOR admit

1. receive. 6. own, avow.

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Related forms

ad·mit·ta·ble, ad·mit·ti·ble, adjectivead·mit·ter, nounhalf-ad·mit·ted, adjectivehalf-ad·mit·ted·ly, adverb

non·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

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6. See acknowledge.

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Examples from the Web for admitted

But the program is just six weeks long, the Pentagon admitted Monday.
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But this may be a distinction without much of a difference—especially since Scalise admitted speaking before EURO.
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A 59-year-old retired subway train driver, who gave his name only as Artist, admitted that he had family members in the NYPD.
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As I sign the forms to be admitted to have surgery the next day, I ask my husband the date.
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Police then lied to Henry by telling him that if he admitted his guilt, he could go home.
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A week escaped in which, without having seen Blanche less, he had seen her under circumstances that admitted no opportunity.
Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905|Various
They are to be admitted to the society of Captain Wharton, who waits only for their testimony to be tried.
The Spy|J. Fenimore Cooper
Georgia has not been so admitted, since she did not comply with the Omnibus Act.
The Reconstruction of Georgia|Edwin C. Woolley
But a somewhat closer reflection will show that there are at least two points in which a possibility of progress may be admitted.
Studies in Modern Music, Second Series|W. H. Hadow
He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Paris, Kentucky.
Fifty Years In The Northwest|William Henry Carman Folsom

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.

admit

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

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

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