ADMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does admission mean? 

• ADMISSION (noun)
  The noun ADMISSION has 4 senses:

1. the act of admitting someone to enter

2. an acknowledgment of the truth of something

3. the fee charged for admission

4. the right to enter

  Familiarity information: ADMISSION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of admitting someone to enter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

admission; admittance

Context example:

the surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic

Hypernyms ("admission" is a kind of...):

entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress (the act of entering)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admission"):

readmission (the act of admitting someone again)

matric; matriculation (admission to a group (especially a college or university))

Derivation:

admit (allow to enter; grant entry to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An acknowledgment of the truth of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("admission" is a kind of...):

acknowledgement; acknowledgment (a statement acknowledging something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admission"):

confession (an admission of misdeeds or faults)

Derivation:

admit (declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The fee charged for admission

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

admission; admission charge; admission fee; admission price; entrance fee; entrance money; price of admission

Hypernyms ("admission" is a kind of...):

fee (a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services)

Derivation:

admit (allow to enter; grant entry to)

admit (serve as a means of entrance)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The right to enter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

access; accession; admission; admittance; entree

Hypernyms ("admission" is a kind of...):

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admission"):

door (anything providing a means of access (or escape))

 Context examples 

A written request for something, such as assistance, employment, or admission to a school.

(Application, NCI Thesaurus)

Specifies that a physician has completed the requirements for admission to a medical specialty board examination but has not taken and passed that examination.

(Board Eligible, NCI Thesaurus)

A person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission.

(Applicant, NCI Thesaurus)

The physician responsible for the admission of a patient to a hospital or other inpatient health institution.

(Admitting Physician, NCI Thesaurus)

Lydia came to us; and Wickham had constant admission to the house.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Importantly, 89% of cytolysin-positive patients with alcoholic hepatitis died within 180 days after admission compared to only about 4% of cytolysin-negative patients.”

(Bacteriophage therapy may ease severity of alcoholic hepatitis, National Institutes of Health)

Compared to his condition at admission to the project, how much has he changed?

(CGI - Global Improvement, NCI Thesaurus)

A previous hospital admission with principal diagnosis of heart failure is considered evidence of heart failure history.

(History of Heart Failure, NCI Thesaurus)

The last documented cervical dilation, in centimeters, when the provider orders admission.

(Number of Centimeters Dilated on Admission, NCI Thesaurus)

“It is Sir William de Pakington, the prince's own herald and scrivener,” whispered Sir Nigel, as they pulled up amid the line of knights who waited admission.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)