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ad⋅mit

  [ad-mit] verb, -mit⋅ted, -mit⋅ting.
Use admittible 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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