Admit Definition
ăd-mĭt
admits, admitted, admitting
verb
admits, admitted, admitting
To grant to be real, valid, or true; acknowledge or concede.
Even proponents of the technology admit that it doesn't always work as well as it should.
American Heritage
To permit to enter or use; let in.
Webster's New World
To give entrance (to a place)
Webster's New World
To disclose or confess (guilt or an error, for example).
American Heritage
To entitle to enter.
This ticket admits two.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- acknowledge
- americanize
- own-up
- break down and confess
- let-slip
- make-no-bones-about
- level with
- come-clean
- tell-all
- plead guilty
- make a clean breast of
- go into details
- narrate
- relate
- open-up
noun
admits
One who is admitted.
American Heritage
Origin of Admit
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From Middle English admitten, amitten, from Old French admettre, amettre (“to admit”), from Latin admittō (“to allow entrance, inlet”, literally “to send to”), from ad- + mittere (“to send”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English amitten, admitten from Old French amettre, admettre from Latin admittere ad- ad- mittere to send
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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