to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
2.
to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
3.
to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.
4.
to permit; allow.
5.
to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.
6.
to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.
7.
to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.
8.
to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.
–verb (used without object)
9.
to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.
10.
to grant opportunity or permission (usually fol. by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation.
[Origin: 1375–1425; < L admittere, equiv. to ad-ad-+ mittere to send, let go; r. late ME amitte, with a-a-5(instead of ad-) < MF amettre < L, as above]
—Related forms
ad·mit·ta·ble, ad·mit·ti·ble, adjective
ad·mit·ter, noun
—Synonyms 1. receive. 6. own, avow. See acknowledge.
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