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Admit: Definition, Common Uses & Examples (2 meaning)

Meaning 1：grant entry to (admit)

admit 🔊

/ədˈmɪt/

to allow someone to enter a place like a hospital, school, or event.

Admit meaning illustrated: nurse admitting a patient at a hospital front desk.

grant entry to 🔊

➕

/ɡrænt ˈentri tuː/

To officially allow a person or thing to enter a specific place or institution.

📁 Category：Physical & Mental Health 🔖 Level：Beginner

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

From Latin 'admittere': 'ad-' (to) + 'mittere' (send, let go). Literally 'to send to, allow to enter'.

💡 Mnemonic

Think 'ADmit him to the MIT party.' AD (let in) + MIT (a place) = allow entry.

📖 Example

During the flu outbreak, the hospital had to admit many more patients than usual. 🔊 During the flu outbreak, the hospital had to grant entry to many more patients than usual.

🔗 Collocations

admit to hospital – To officially allow someone to become a patient in a hospital.

admit students – To accept students into a school, college, or program.

admit defeat – To accept that you have lost a contest or argument.

🔄 Synonyms

allow (v.) – To give permission for someone to do something or for something to happen.

accept (v.) – To agree to take or receive someone or something offered.

let in () – To allow someone or something to enter.

🚫 Antonyms

deny (v.) – To refuse to allow someone to have or do something.

refuse (v.) – To indicate or show that one is not willing to accept or grant something.

exclude (v.) – To deny someone access to a place, group, or privilege.

🌱 Derivatives

admission (n.) – The process or fact of entering or being allowed to enter a place or institution.

admittance (n.) – The act of entering a place, especially a formal or physical entry.

admittedly (adv.) – Used to introduce a statement that is acknowledged to be true, often reluctantly.

📖 Cultural Story

Derived from Latin 'admittere', used in legal and physical contexts for entry. It evolved to include abstract admissions (e.g., admitting guilt) in English, reflecting a shift from physical gates to metaphorical ones, like in a hospital's "admissions desk."

Meaning 2：reluctantly acknowledge (admit)

admit 🔊

/ədˈmɪt/

to reluctantly agree that something is true, especially a mistake or fault.

Admit definition: person showing reluctant acknowledgment or confession.

reluctantly acknowledge 🔊

➕

/rɪˈlʌktəntli əkˈnɒlɪdʒ/

To agree, often unwillingly, that something unpleasant or difficult is true.

📁 Category：Behaviors & Actions 🔖 Level：Beginner

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Example

After looking everywhere, he had to admit that he had lost the car keys. 🔊 After looking everywhere, he had to reluctantly acknowledge that he had lost the car keys.

🔗 Collocations

admit a mistake – To confess that one has done something wrong or incorrect.

admit guilt – To formally state that one is responsible for a crime or wrongdoing.

admit (to) wrongdoing – To confess to having done something illegal or morally wrong.

🔄 Synonyms

confess (v.) – To admit or acknowledge something reluctantly, typically because one feels slightly ashamed or embarrassed.

acknowledge (v.) – To accept or admit the existence or truth of something.

concede (v.) – To admit, often unwillingly, that something is true or correct after first resisting.

🚫 Antonyms

deny (v.) – To state that one refuses to admit the truth or existence of something.

conceal (v.) – To keep something secret or hidden; to prevent it from being known.