admit Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
    acknowledge.
    • He admitted his errors
    • She acknowledged that she might have forgotten
  2. verb allow to enter; grant entry to
    intromit; let in; allow in.
    • We cannot admit non-members into our club building
    • This pipe admits air
  3. verb allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of
    include; let in.
    • admit someone to the profession
    • She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar
  4. verb admit into a group or community
    take on; take; accept.
    • accept students for graduate study
    • We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member
  5. verb afford possibility
    allow.
    • This problem admits of no solution
    • This short story allows of several different interpretations
  6. verb give access or entrance to
    • The French doors admit onto the yard
  7. verb have room for; hold without crowding
    accommodate; hold.
    • This hotel can accommodate 250 guests
    • The theater admits 300 people
    • The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people
  8. verb serve as a means of entrance
    • This ticket will admit one adult to the show

WordNet

Ad*mit" transitive verb
Etymology
OE. amitten, L. admittere, admissum; ad + mittere to send: cf. F. admettre, OF. admettre, OF. ametre. See Missile.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Admitted; present participle & verbal noun Admitting
Definitions
  1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.
  2. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket one into a playhouse.
  3. To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.
  4. To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.
  5. To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
    Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.

Webster 1913