ALL meanings of admit
ad·mit
A a - verb admit If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true. 3
- verb admit If someone is admitted to hospital, they are taken into hospital for treatment and kept there until they are well enough to go home. 3
- verb admit If someone is admitted to an organization or group, they are allowed to join it. 3
- verb admit To admit someone to a place means to allow them to enter it. 3
- verb admit to confess or acknowledge (a crime, mistake, etc) 3
- verb admit to concede (the truth or validity of something) 3
- verb admit to allow to enter; let in 3
- verb admit to allow participation (in) or the right to be part (of) 3
- verb admit to allow (of); leave room (for) 3
- verb admit to give access 3
- verb transitive admit to permit to enter or use; let in 3
- verb transitive admit to entitle to enter 3
- verb transitive admit to allow; leave room for 3
- verb transitive admit to have room for; hold 3
- verb transitive admit to concede or grant 3
- verb transitive admit to acknowledge or confess 3
- verb transitive admit to permit to practice certain functions 3
- intransitive verb admit to give entrance (to a place) 3
- intransitive verb admit to allow or warrant 3
- intransitive verb admit to confess or own (to) 3
- verb with object admit to permit; allow. 1
- verb with object admit to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument. 1
- verb with object admit to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt. 1
- verb with object admit to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted. 1
- verb with object admit to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast. 1
- verb without object admit to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden. 1
- verb without object admit to permit the possibility of something; allow (usually followed by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation. 1
- noun admit Confess to be true or to be the case, typically with reluctance. 1
- transitive verb admit confess 1
- intransitive verb admit confess to: crime 1
- intransitive verb admit feelings: acknowledge 1
- transitive verb admit allow entry 1
- transitive verb admit as a member 1
- transitive verb admit accept validity of 1
- transitive verb admit concede 1
- transitive verb admit place in an institution 1
- transitive verb admit permit 1
- intransitive verb admit door, gate: provide access to 1
- transitive verb admit to institution 1
- verb with object admit to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college. 1
- verb with object admit to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people. 1
- verb with object admit to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar. 1
- verb admit (Intransitive Verb) To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of). 0
- verb admit (Transitive Verb) To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment. 0
- verb admit (Transitive Verb) To allow to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take. 0
- verb admit (Transitive Verb) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise. 0
- verb admit (Transitive Verb) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess. 0
- verb admit (Transitive Verb) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted. 0