admit

admit is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
3. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. 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.
6. verb. declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of

   "He admitted his errors"

   "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"

   Synonyms: acknowledge

7. verb. admit into a group or community

   "accept students for graduate study"

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

   Synonyms: accept, take

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

   "admit someone to the profession"

   "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"

   Synonyms: include

9. verb. allow to enter; grant entry to

   "We cannot admit non-members into our club building"

   "This pipe admits air"

   Synonyms: intromit

10. verb. serve as a means of entrance

    "This ticket will admit one adult to the show"

11. verb. have room for; hold without crowding

    "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"

    "The theater admits 300 people"

    Synonyms: accommodate, hold

12. verb. give access or entrance to

    "The French doors admit onto the yard"

13. verb. afford possibility

    "This problem admits of no solution"

    "This short story allows of several different interpretations"

    Synonyms: allow

Synonyms

acknowledge, accept, take, include, intromit, accommodate, hold, allow

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in admit:

atmid

Common word forms

admits, admitted, admitter, admitting

Words from these letters

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