ADMIT (admitted, admitting)

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Irregular inflected forms: admitted    , admitting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does admit mean? 

• ADMIT (verb)
  The verb ADMIT has 8 senses:

1. declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of

2. allow to enter; grant entry to

3. allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of

4. admit into a group or community

5. afford possibility

6. give access or entrance to

7. have room for; hold without crowding

8. serve as a means of entrance

  Familiarity information: ADMIT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they admit    ... he / she / it admits   
Past simple: admitted   
Past participle: admitted   
-ing form: admitting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

acknowledge; admit

Context example:

She acknowledged that she might have forgotten

Hypernyms (to "admit" is one way to...):

adjudge; declare; hold (declare to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "admit"):

write off (concede the loss or worthlessness of something or somebody)

make no bones about (acknowledge freely and openly)

sustain (admit as valid)

concede; confess; profess (admit (to a wrongdoing))

confess (confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith)

confess; fink; squeal (confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure)

avouch; avow (admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about)

attorn (acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Antonym:

deny (declare untrue; contradict)

Derivation:

admission (an acknowledgment of the truth of something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Allow to enter; grant entry to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

admit; allow in; intromit; let in

Context example:

This pipe admits air

Hypernyms (to "admit" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

admit (serve as a means of entrance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "admit"):

repatriate (admit back into the country)

readmit (admit anew)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Antonym:

reject (refuse entrance or membership)

Derivation:

admission (the act of admitting someone to enter)

admission (the fee charged for admission)

admittable; admittible (deserving to be allowed to enter)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

admit; include; let in

Context example:

She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar

Hypernyms (to "admit" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

accept; admit; take; take on (admit into a group or community)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "admit"):

induct; initiate (accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite)

readmit (admit again or anew)

involve (engage as a participant)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Antonym:

exclude (prevent from entering; shut out)

Derivation:

admittance (the right to enter)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Admit into a group or community

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

accept; admit; take; take on

Context example:

We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member

Hypernyms (to "admit" is one way to...):

accept; have; take (receive willingly something given or offered)

Verb group:

admit; include; let in (allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "admit"):

profess (receive into a religious order or congregation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot admit Sue

Sense 5

Meaning:

Afford possibility

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

admit; allow

Context example:

This short story allows of several different interpretations

Verb group:

allow; allow for; leave; provide (make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

admissive (characterized by or allowing admission)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Give access or entrance to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

The French doors admit onto the yard

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 7

Meaning:

Have room for; hold without crowding

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

accommodate; admit; hold

Context example:

The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people

Verb group:

contain; hold; take (be capable of holding or containing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "admit"):

sleep (be able to accommodate for sleeping)

house (contain or cover)

seat (be able to seat)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

admittible (deserving to be allowed to enter)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Serve as a means of entrance

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

This ticket will admit one adult to the show

Hypernyms (to "admit" is one way to...):

do; serve (spend time in prison or in a labor camp)

Verb group:

admit; allow in; intromit; let in (allow to enter; grant entry to)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

admission (the fee charged for admission)

admittable; admittible (deserving to be allowed to enter)

 Context examples 

Yet I admit that there may very well be places where an expert human climber may reach the summit, and yet a cumbrous and heavy animal be unable to descend.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And particularly, whether they were ever admitted as members in the lower senate?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“It was not judicious, sir, I am willing to admit,” said Mr. Mell.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had entertained hopes of being admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of whose beauty he had heard much; but he saw only the father.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

When I remembered how far I had once been admitted to his confidence, I could hardly comprehend his present frigidity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At last I told him about the mark upon your forehead, and he decided he would admit you to his presence.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

This one acted as your engager, and then found that he could not find you an employer without admitting a third person into his plot.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You will have another jewel of a day coming earlier in the month, not quite as dramatic (although I admit, I am splitting hairs here).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Vulgarity—a hearty vulgarity, I'll admit—is the basis of bourgeois refinement and culture.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)