admit
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
admit/ədˈmɪt/
▶verb (admits, admitting, admitted)
- 1 confess that something is true or the case.
■ confess to or acknowledge (a crime, fault, or failure).
- 2 allow to enter.
■ receive (someone) into a hospital for treatment.
- 3 accept as valid.
- 4 (admit of) allow the possibility of.
– derivatives
admitted adjective,
admittedly adverb.
admitted adjective,
admittedly adverb.
– origin ME: from L. admittere, from ad- ‘to’ + mittere ‘send’.
'admit' also found in these Oxford entries:
acknowledge
- adscititious
- affiliate
- allow
- best
- breathe
- canonize
- concede
- confess
- cop
- countenance
- crow
- deny
- floodgate
- give
- grant
- inaugurate
- induct
- initiate
- leak
- naturalize
- nolo contendere
- nostril
- own
- permit
- readmit
- receive
- solarium
- swear
- throw
- uncle
- window
