 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
admit
verb
1: declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or
truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged
that she might have forgotten" [syn: {acknowledge}]
[ant: {deny}]
2: allow to enter; grant entry to; "We cannot admit non-members
into our club" [syn: {allow in}, {let in}, {intromit}]
[ant: {reject}]
3: allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to
exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of;
"admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to
the New Jersey Bar" [syn: {let in}, {include}] [ant: {exclude}]
4: admit into a group or community; "accept students for
graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to
admit a new member" [syn: {accept}, {take}, {take on}]
5: afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution";
"This short story allows of several different
interpretations" [syn: {allow}]
6: give access or entrance to; "The French doors admit onto the
yard"
7: have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can
accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people";
"The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people" [syn: {accommodate},
{hold}]
8: serve as a means of entrance; "This ticket will admit one
adult to the show"
[also: {admitting}, {admitted}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
admitted
See {admit}
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Admit \Ad*mit"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Admitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Admitting}.] [OE. amitten, L. admittere, admissum; ad +
mittere to send: cf. F. admettre, OF. admettre, OF. ametre.
See {Missile}.]
1. 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.
2. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into
a playhouse.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
Both Houses declared that they could admit of no
treaty with the king. --Hume.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Admitted \Ad*mit"ted\, adjective
Received as true or valid; acknowledged.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "admitted":
accepted, acclaimed, acknowledged, admired, advocated, affirmed,
allowed, applauded, approved, authenticated, avowed, backed,
being done, certified, comme il faut, conceded, confessed,
confirmed, conformable, conventional, correct, countersigned,
cried up, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, endorsed,
established, favored, favorite, fixed, folk, formal, granted,
hallowed, handed down, heroic, highly touted, hoary, immemorial,
in good odor, inveterate, legendary, long-established,
long-standing, meet, mythological, notarized, of long standing,
of the folk, on sufferance, oral, orthodox, permitted, popular,
prescriptive, professed, proper, ratified, received, recognized,
recommended, right, rooted, sealed, seemly, signed, stamped,
supported, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, time-honored, tolerated,
traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, underwritten,
unforbidden, unprohibited, unwritten, validated, venerable,
warranted, well-thought-of, worshipful
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