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say it: uhd-MIT
admit is a verb meaning "declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of". It carries 8 recorded senses.
declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
“He admitted his errors”
“She acknowledged that she might have forgotten”
afford possibility
“This problem admits of no solution”
“This short story allows of several different interpretations”
give access or entrance to
“The French doors admit onto the yard”
have room for; hold without crowding
“This hotel can accommodate 250 guests”
“The theater admits 300 people”
“The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for admit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.