Anagram Solver

Definitions for Admit

[1] to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
[2] to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
[3] to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.
[4] to permit; allow.
[5] to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.
[6] to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.
[7] to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.
[8] to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.
[9] to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.
[10] to permit the possibility of something; allow (usually followed by of ): The contract admits of no other interpretation.
[11] (may take a clause as object) to confess or acknowledge (a crime, mistake, etc)
[12] (may take a clause as object) to concede (the truth or validity of something)
[13] to allow to enter; let in
[14] (foll by to) to allow participation (in) or the right to be part (of) to admit to the profession
[15] (when intr, foll by of ) to allow (of); leave room (for)
[16] (intr) to give access the door admits onto the lawn

Words related to Admit

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

Words nearby Admit

admire, admiring, admissible, admission, admissive, admit, admittance, admittedly, admittee, admix, admixture

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

Other words from Admit

ad·mit·ta·ble , ad·mit·ti·ble , adjective
ad·mit·ter , noun
half-ad·mit·ted , adjective
half-ad·mit·ted·ly , adverb
non·ad·mit·ted , adjective, noun
non·ad·mit·ted·ly , adverb
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.
un·ad·mit·ted , adjective
un·ad·mit·ted·ly , adverb
well-ad·mit·ted , adjective

Word origin for Admit

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

Synonyms for Admit

accept, concede, enter, grant, introduce, permit, receive, sign, take, bless, buy, entertain, harbor, house, initiate, let, lodge, okay, shelter, suffer, be big on, give access, give the nod, give thumbs up, let in, sign off on, take in