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ad⋅mit

  [ad-mit] verb, -mit⋅ted, -mit⋅ting.
Use admitted in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. 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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ad·mit   (ād-mĭt')   
v.   ad·mit·ted, ad·mit·ting, ad·mits

v.   tr.
  1. To permit to enter: A crack in the wall admitted some light.
  2. To provide the right or a means of entrance to: A ticket that admits the whole group.
  3. To permit to exercise the rights, functions, or privileges of: was admitted to the bar association.
  4. To have room for; accommodate.
  5. To afford opportunity for; permit: We must admit no delay in the proceedings.
  6. To grant to be real, valid, or true; acknowledge: admit the truth. See Synonyms at acknowledge.
  7. To grant as true or valid, as for the sake of argument; concede.
v.   intr.
  1. To afford possibility: a problem that admits of no solution.
  2. To allow entrance; afford access: a door admitting to the hall.
  3. To make acknowledgment.

[Middle English amitten, admitten, from Old French amettre, admettre, from Latin admittere : ad-, ad- + mittere, to send.]
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Admitted

Ad*mit"ted\, a. Received as true or valid; acknowledged.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : admitted
Spanish: admitir, permitir la entrada,
German: Zutritt gewähren,
Japanese: 入場を許可する
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